Nov. 13 (UPI) -- America's Catholic bishops sent sharp criticism of rising fear in the United States and ongoing mass deportations in a rebuke of Trump administration immigration policy.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said its some 273 active bishops were "disturbed" to see that "among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement."
"We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants," the group wrote in its statement.
It arrived after U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV directed bishops in the United States to be vocal and speak out against President Donald Trump's hardline crackdown on migration.
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