America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement condemning the Trump administration’s “indiscriminate mass deportation.”

The bishops issued a special message on immigration from the Plenary Assembly in Baltimore, where they advocated for “meaningful reform of our nation’s immigration laws.”

The move comes after the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV made a separate appeal to U.S. immigration authorities.

The bishops’ special message is a rare pastoral document that reflects current issues and can only be issued by bishops at their annual meeting.

“We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement,” Wednesday’s statement read.

“We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification o

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