Clergy seek court order to allow pastoral access to immigrants held at Minneapolis ICE facility

Clergy seek court order to allow pastoral access to immigrants held at Minneapolis ICE facility The badge and gun of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is seen at the airport in El Paso, Texas, May 10, 2023, during an operation to transfer migrants to a plane to be expelled from the U.S. to their home country. In the Diocese of San Bernardino, Calif., Bishop Alberto Rojas on July 8 dispensed the faithful in his diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass if they fear for their well-being amid ICE raids in Southern California. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Protestant and Catholic clergy are asking a federal judge to order that they be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in Minnesota. US District Judge Jerry Blackwell will hear from attorneys for Minnesota branches of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the United…

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