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demmiblue

(38,958 posts)
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 07:53 AM 6 hrs ago

Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays

WORCESTER – Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25.

Three U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys, including one assigned to the U.S. Attorney’s office in the district of Massachusetts, one to the district of Rhode Island office, and the third posted at an office in New York told This Week in Worcester they received briefings on the plan.

The attorney in the Massachusetts office said that they attend a Baptist church in Massachusetts and is a registered Republican. He said that he does not see how this plan is in line with either American values or Biblical doctrine.

The attorney in the Rhode Island office confirmed both the briefing and internal discussions about the legal issues surrounding arrests at churches over the past three months.

https://thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-trump-ice-raids-churches-holiday/
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Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays (Original Post) demmiblue 6 hrs ago OP
Senate has to stop this crap. lindysalsagal 6 hrs ago #1
Susan will be concerned. Then get back to her fancy Thanksgiving dinner newdeal2 5 hrs ago #2
A literal War on Christmas Prairie Gates 5 hrs ago #3
Very Christ-like...for Christmas maspaha 4 hrs ago #4
they used the "church" to win - Nigrum Cattus 3 hrs ago #5
That moral republican Gestapo at work. republianmushroom 2 hrs ago #6
WWJD? PatSeg 2 hrs ago #7
Headline should be malaise 2 hrs ago #8
At least I will be safe. twodogsbarking 1 hr ago #9
Church should tried to pack the church with a bigger mix of non spanish Historic NY 1 hr ago #10
Spanish Congregations gfarber 13 min ago #11

Nigrum Cattus

(1,108 posts)
5. they used the "church" to win -
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 10:58 AM
3 hrs ago

now the "church", like everyone else, will be threatened
their BS control will not work - the backlash will be major

Historic NY

(39,491 posts)
10. Church should tried to pack the church with a bigger mix of non spanish
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 12:59 PM
1 hr ago

Parishioners during those events.

gfarber

(156 posts)
11. Spanish Congregations
Tue Nov 18, 2025, 02:29 PM
13 min ago


There once was a Homeland plan drawn
To raid Spanish congregations at dawn —
From ICE and CBP,
They’d patrol faithfully,
In churches where faithful were relied upon.

Between Thanksgiving and Christmas so bright,
They plotted to act in the dead of the night;
In sanctuaries they’d roam,
Where Spanish is home,
To enforce laws by bureaucratic might.

But three DOJ lawyers stood tall,
From Boston, Providence, New York’s hall;
They’d been briefed on the scheme,
And they cried, “It’s a dream /
Of values that deeply appall!”

The Mass. attorney said, “I attend
A Baptist church — I cannot defend
This plan’s chilling scope
Clashing faith with their hope,
It betrays what our Scriptures intend.”

In Rhode Island too they expressed
That legal concerns had not been suppressed:
Arrests at a church
Would deeply besmirch
The ideals our nation professed.
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