Trump’s Immigration Raids Are Reshaping the Catholic Vote

It’s not normal for a priest to bring a cell phone into the sanctuary when he is celebrating Mass. But when Father Paul Haverstock heard there were masked immigration agents in the parking lot of his church in January, he said he wanted “a clear recording of me letting the agents know that we’re in the middle of a religious service.”

Haverstock is pastor at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church in Hopkins, Minnesota, which has a largely Spanish-speaking congregation. He never needed to do any video recording that day, but having federal agents idling outside his church has terrorized his community, he told the Catholic News Agency. A month earlier, ICE agents had arrested the church’s maintenance worker, who had lived in the US for 25 years.