00:00Your clicker, please. Get it in the back, in the foyer. You will need that for this morning.
00:07On the issue of immigration more generally, since January, the Trump administration has remained
00:14committed to carrying out the president's campaign promise of mass deportations. This
00:22has been accompanied by policy changes that are intimidating and dehumanizing the immigrants in
00:29our midst, regardless of how they came to be here. The repeated rhetoric about an approach to
00:37enforcement focused on terrorists, dangerous criminals, and those with final orders of removal
00:45has largely been contradicted by several actions. This includes the detention of those attending
00:53their immigration court hearings, the targeting of international students, and even the circumvention
01:01of protections for unaccompanied children, among others. Over two-thirds of the almost 60,000 people
01:10held in immigration detention at the end of September had no criminal convictions. Furthermore, pressure is
01:19being placed on our men and women charged with the already difficult responsibilities of law enforcement
01:26to increase the number of arrests. Those who lack legal status are far from the only ones impacted by
01:35this approach. The administration has taken several steps to terminate legal protections and work
01:42authorization for hundreds of thousands of people, adding them to the existing undocumented population.
01:51The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
01:55Holy Mary and Mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
02:00In cities across the United States, our migrant brothers and sisters, many of them are fellow Catholics,
02:07faced a culture of fear, hesitant to leave their homes and even to attend church for fear of being
02:15randomly harassed or detained. Holy Father, please know that the bishops in the United States,
02:22united in our concern, will continue to stand with migrants and defend everyone's right to worship
02:29free from intimidation. We support secure and orderly borders and law enforcement actions
02:37in response to dangerous criminal activity, but we cannot remain silent in this challenging hour
02:44while the right to worship and the right to due process are undermined.
02:50In our nation as well as in our world, we face so many challenges in witnessing to the gospel,
02:57the growing narrowness and selfishness of individualism, economic and social impoverishment,
03:04growing polarization, animosity, and political violence, the inability to engage in civil discourse,
03:13the lack of generosity to work with each other, and constant threats of the life and dignity of
03:19every human person, especially the poor, the elderly, and the unborn.
03:33So,
03:43I'm just going to say,
03:44I guess when I see,
03:45You
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