Excerpt from Bishop Price's Pastoral Letter to the Diocese published in January 2025. 

...I want to address a matter of the utmost moral urgency that challenges the core of our understanding of ourselves as a people united to one another through the Sacrament of the Eucharist in the communion of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I am in total sacramental and moral solidarity with the members of our diocese who find themselves in immigration detention. My fatherly heart is very close to them. This does not preclude or foreclose political dialogue on the appropriate conditions for legal entry into the United States and the number of persons who should be permitted to do so. Thoughtful Christians must acknowledge that a legitimate political ordo could determine both numbers and conditions for legal entry that they personally find unsatisfactory but are entirely appropriate and moral outcomes of a democratic deliberative process. Nevertheless, an informed Christian conscience must recoil at the means by which federal officers are currently enforcing the policies and orders of the executive branch, and the conditions under which most detainees are being held – including, most disturbingly, minors – which are beyond the normal deprivations that those caught in the machinery of the penal system would expect to experience. I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them. Addressing the challenge of offering a particularly Christian witness amidst political polarization, the moral and ecclesial demands made by our sacramental solidarity, and how we might live out our faith in works of justice will be the common work of the clergy at our conference this April. Meanwhile, I exhort all parishes of this diocese to pray for our brothers and sisters who are in immigration detention by name in the Prayers on the People every Sunday morning. Prayer must be the ground upon which we all stand together in solidarity and repentance. Prayer is the Christian’s first and best recourse, because it is the power given to us to ask for God’s power to intervene in human suffering and injustice. My suggestion would be for a petition such as this: “We pray for God’s mercy on the members of our diocesan family currently held in immigration detention: Juan, Jose, Pedro, Ayoub, Mo, Barbod, Milad, Sahel, Asra, Amir, Hana, Sared, and their families.” The diocesan office will provide regular updates on their status and well-being.