You make an important point here @Victoria33 .
Fear of the rhetoric of the campaign is why some illegals left (not a bad thing, obviously), but not the reality of the policy enacted.
@musiclady @mystery-ak @roamer_1 @txradioguy I failed to mention where this church is. It is in the greater Dallas/Fort Worth area. It is in the Fort Worth Catholic Diocese. So, this is in an area where numerous millions of people live and likely millions of them are Spanish. With such a high percentage of Spanish speakers, many have to be illegal and I know this is true, as I state it here:
The Fort Worth Catholic Diocese has a department that accepts federal government money to settle illegals into this area. They get them medical care, food, a place to live, find them a job, give them cash money to exist until they get a job, and sign them up for federal programs they can get.
I detest this program and believe every Catholic Diocese in this country accepts federal money to do this. It was Obama who began using Catholic Dioceses to settle illegals in this country. Perhaps there are other church denominations that take federal money to do this, I do not know. Our government should stop giving money to settle illegals in this country.
After Trump was president, a bulletin/leaflet was put out by our diocese Bishop and passed out to members in every Catholic church in the diocese. It asked us to protect illegals to keep them from being deported and send money to the diocese to help more be settled here. I was stunned when these leaflets were passed out in our church. I thought that was asking us to commit an illegal act, aiding and abetting an illegal activity.