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Deportation is a death sentence, and our government’s hands are bloody

Updated: Jul 27, 2020


On March 3, 2020 Melissa Crow, Senior Supervising Attorney at the SPL Center wrote:

“More than 138 innocent people were murdered after being deported by the United States between 2014 and 2018. At least 70 other Salvadorans were greeted with sexual assault or suffered other types of violence – such as extortion, dismemberment or torture – when returned to El Salvador. "

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“Catholic social teaching is a central and essential element of our faith. Its roots are in the Hebrew prophets who announced God's special love for the poor and called God's people to a covenant of love and justice. It is a teaching founded on the life and words of Jesus Christ, who came "to bring glad tidings to the poor . . . liberty to captives . . . recovery of sight to the blind"(Lk 4:18-19), and who identified himself with "the least of these," the hungry and the stranger (cf. Mt 25:45). Catholic social teaching is built on a commitment to the poor. This commitment arises from our experiences of Christ in the eucharist.”

https://www.usccb.org/resources/sharing-catholic-social-teaching-challenges-and-directions

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