CNA Staff, Oct 15, 2025 / 12:45 pm
Pensacola-Tallahassee Bishop William Wack this week called for immigration reform while urging the faithful to welcome immigrants amid ongoing deportations and detainments in Florida and throughout the country.
The bishop told the faithful in his diocese in an Oct. 14 letter that he has “reflected with a heavy heart” on the trials of immigrants in the United States “suffering under the weight of a broken immigration system.”
The Trump administration has continued to aggressively pursue enhanced immigration enforcement, claiming that more than two million immigrants have either been removed or self-deported in roughly the last eight months.
In his letter, Wack acknowledged that law enforcement “has a responsibility to apprehend and detain individua