Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez criticized the Trump administration’s wide-sweeping immigration raids and called for a more careful approach in an opinion piece released this week.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement this week continued carrying out raids all over Los Angeles as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration.

Gomez wrote in an article released by Angelus News, a weekly magazine published by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, that he has “been deeply disturbed by the reports of federal agents detaining people in public places, apparently without showing warrants or evidence that those they are taking into custody are in the country illegally.”

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