It was a slow Monday in dozens of cities around the country as businesses closed for a “Day Without Immigrants.”
The nationwide demonstration is meant to give a glimpse into what life without the new arrivals would be like as mass ICE arrests continue.
According to recent estimates, roughly 8.3 million undocumented immigrants work in the U.S. Bishops throughout the country have been speaking out against Trump’s immigration plans.
Bishop Mark Seitz, who leads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration, said in a recent statement: “We urge President Trump to pivot from these enforcement-only policies to just and merciful solutions, working in good faith with members of Congress to achieve meaningful, bipartisan immigration reform that furthers the common good with an effective, orderly immigration system.”
To read more about the bishops’ response to recent migration policies, just go online to TheTablet.org.