LOS ANGELES — For the first time in 12 years, U.S. Catholic bishops issued a unified statement Wednesday to support the country’s immigrants and oppose the Trump administration’s “indiscriminate mass deportations of people.”

The special statement was issued during the bishops’ annual gathering in Baltimore. It was the first time since 2013 that the bishops had collectively voiced their concerns over an issue. The last time they did so was in response to the federal government’s contraceptive mandate.

“We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement,” the statement read in part. “We are concerned by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants. We are concerned about the conditions

See Full Page