LA archdiocese to deliver food and medication to parishioners homebound due to Ice raids

[cbabe]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/los-angeles-catholic-church-ice-raids

LA archdiocese to deliver food and medication to parishioners homebound due to Ice raids

As White House continues its immigration crackdown, church steps up to assist members too afraid to leave home

Marina Dunbar
Fri 25 Jul 2025 11.07 EDT

The archdiocese of Los Angeles is launching a new initiative to provide essentials such as hot meals, groceries and prescription medications to people and families too afraid to leave their homes due to immigration raids.

The move to support immigrant parishioners experiencing heightened fear amid a nationwide crackdown by the Trump administration that has seen tens of thousands of arrests and outraged civil liberties groups.

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The newly created Family Assistance Program, supported entirely by donations, will work through the archdiocese’s 288 parishes across Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties to assist parishioners in need. Contributions can be made on the website or at any parish, with funds directed toward communities identified as especially at risk.

Many donors have already stepped forward: the businessman and former mayoral candidate Rick Caruso gave $50,000 and pledged to match an additional $50,000. The Catholic Association for Latino Leadership added $10,000, and Vallarta Supermarkets contributed another $10,000 in the form of gift cards.

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[Ocelot II]

1. Great idea - but will ICE follow the deliverers to the immigrants' homes and detain everybody?

I hope they're really sneaky about how they accomplish this.

[cbabe]

3. Make deliveries in big white unmarked vans. Ice thugs will think other ice thugs beat them to the bounty kidnapping.

[Raven123]

4. My thoughts exactly. Hope they have a plan

[cbabe]

7. Also get some of those fake ice tshirts. And camo. Like door dash only different.

[SheltieLover]

8. Will ice start dressing like clergy?

[hatrack]

9. Send it out through food pantry pickups - lots of cars, packages and destinations

And they sure as shit can't track them all (or even most of them).

[Ocelot II]

10. Maybe they should wear UPS or Amazon uniforms.

[hatrack]

11. Yeah, that would work . . .

[peggysue2]

2. Good for The Church, specifically this diocese

It's what all the churches should and could be doing to assist their communities. That and speaking out loudly against the abuse and raw bigotry.

[DBoon]

5. are they going to charge the Archbishop with obstructing law enforcement?

Like what Texas has tried to do?

https://apnews.com/article/texas-immigration-catholic-abbott-paxton-dde110e3458e49d4a5553e4cd16646a5

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A judge on Wednesday rejected Texas’ attempts to compel a deposition from one of the largest migrant shelters on the U.S.-Mexico border, dealing a new legal setback to a widening Republican-led investigation into migrant aid groups.

The ruling by state District Judge J.R. Flores does not stop the state’s investigation into Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, which provides temporary housing for as many as 2,000 women and children when border crossings are at their highest. The border nonprofit is among several targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over claims that aid groups are helping migrants enter the U.S. illegally.

Catholic Charities and other organizations have denied the accusations, saying the state has produced no evidence.

[mainer]

6. Donate to the program here:

I don't believe in god, but I believe in godliness.
Good for the L.A. Archbishop!

https://lacatholics.org/immigrant-support/

[AllaN01Bear]

12. some of us do the walk.