LA immigration raids rattle Catholic parishes: ‘People are hiding’
In the months since the November 2024 elections, Isaac Cuevas has gone from parish to parish saying the same things at educational workshops for immigrants.
Amid concerns that the new Trump administration would toughen immigration laws and ramp up deportations, Cuevas, who works as director of immigration and public affairs for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, invited anxious parishioners to take a “Know Your Risk” approach to clear up misinformation and false rumors about immigration enforcement.
“Every time I gave this presentation, it was like, look: ‘These are the priorities that ICE (U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement) focuses on. They don’t go out on the streets, and they don’t pick people up because that’s racial profiling.’ ”