DOJ probing protesters group that disrupted services at church with ICE pastorBDKJMU wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 9:58 am Unhinged lunatic ICE protestors storm a church because they hate Christians. Despicable. And these are the people that Klamdani and QUI88 support. And listen to the audio of the stupid leftist fuck justifying it.
I didn’t cheer when that woman in the SUV got shot. It was tragic. But invading churches during services crosses a big line. If someone opened up on on these fuckers and took a bunch out I’d say they deserved it.
Maybe they should practice what they preach ...The Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor.
Faith groups sue Trump administration to block immigration raids at houses of worship
UPDATE: ICE deported Minnesota church employee, surveilled parish during Mass, mayor saysA coalition of faith groups led by Worcester's New England Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America sued the Trump administration Monday to to block immigration raids at houses of worship.
The suit, filed Monday at a Worcester federal court, alleges that the raids violate the constitutional right to religious freedom. It names the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration enforcement, and Secretary Kristi Noem as defendants.
Father Paul Haverstock, pastor of St. Gabriel’s, said he had vested for the 1 p.m. Spanish Mass Jan. 4 when a parishioner told him about men wearing ski masks in a car outside the church. He said he was disturbed to receive the report, went to the sacristy to get his cellphone, and placed it next to his chair in the sanctuary.
“If there is an incident of agents coming in, I want to make sure that it’s recorded, and I want a clear recording of me letting the agents know that we’re in the middle of a religious service,” Haverstock said.
It didn’t come to that, but ICE’s presence outside has impeded parishioners’ free exercise of religion, Haverstock said. ICE agents camped outside the church felt like “a violation,” he said.
“Who wouldn’t feel intimidated by that?” he said.
“It felt like a violation of our constitutional rights, felt like a violation of civilization and good manners. It felt like we were not living in the United States of America but in some third world, violent place, somewhere else,” Haverstock said. “Yeah, it feels like we’re in a war zone here.”
