While the Catholic Church has traditionally been a reactionary force, especially in the U.S., with their staunch opposition to women's reproductive rights, marriage equality, and on other social issues, there is an increased focus on immigration policies of the sociopathic Malignant Fascist. Many immigrants crossing the southern border are Hispanic Catholics, which may have drawn their particular attention. Now, as Newsweek reports, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is taking a harder line against the MF's cruel and decidedly un-Christian policies:
"Last week, the USCCB, the official assembly of the Catholic Church in the United States, slammed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for rescinding a policy that gave guidance on the care, custody and documentation of pregnant women they encounter.
'It is deeply troubling and inexcusable that measures intended to ensure the basic safety of pregnant mothers and their young children while in government custody could be rescinded with such indifference toward the vulnerability of those involved," said Bishop Mark J. Seitz, of El Paso, Texas, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration." (our emphasis)
So much for MAGA's "sanctity of life" and "protecting the unborn" empty chatter. More on the Customs and Border Protection's new guidelines for pregnant women:
"One of them was the 2022 memo 'Processing of Pregnant, and Postpartum Noncitizens and Infants,' which lays out guidelines for CPB, which include offering a medical assessment to all pregnant women and making sure breast-feeding mothers have access to privacy and rest facilities.
'This decision is all the more concerning as the Administration simultaneously ramps up family detention in place of safer, more cost-effective alternatives to detention,' Seitz said.
'Let us be clear: protecting pregnant mothers and their children can never be considered 'obsolete.' This principle irrefutably extends to noncitizens in immigration detention, each of whom possesses an inviolable, God-given dignity that must be respected.'" (our emphasis)
The Conference sued the MF's regime in February over funding for refugee resettlement, lost with a Trumpiist Federal judge, and is now appealing the case. The election of Pope Leo XIV should put some new strength behind the Conference as it battles the MF over humane treatment of immigrants. It's the least they can do.
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