Feliz Navidad: Feds plan holiday season raids on Spanish-speaking churches

Multiple federal agencies are planning a nationwide crackdown on Spanish-speaking churches during the upcoming holiday season, according to three sources in the U.S. Department of Justice.

DOJ attorneys assigned to U.S. attorney's offices in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York told This Week in Worcester they had received briefings on a plan involving operations at churches between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day carried out by agents from 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).

"The attorney in the Massachusetts office said that they attend a Baptist church in Massachusetts and is a registered Republican," the outlet reported. "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."

"The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race," the report added.

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