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pnwmom

(109,995 posts) Sat Jul 19, 2025, 07:08 PM Jul 19

Unlike in the US, most of the US detainees and deportees born in Central, S. America, and the Caribbean [View all]

are Catholic.

In the US, only 39% are Catholic. Why isn't the media covering the fact that most of the people being deported are Catholic? If they were deporting mostly Muslims or Jews, wouldn't that be reported widely? I have seen reports of Muslims being deported, but rarely, if ever, see any mention of a Catholic deportee's religion. And yet, most of these detainees and deportees come from largely Catholic countries.

From Wikipedia:

Region Total population Catholic % Catholic
Caribbean 24,364,622 19,062,198 78.23%
Central America 42,883,849 32,317,384 75.36%
North America 448,587,847 173,212,640 38.61%
South America 371,363,897 299,570,011 80.66%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_by_country

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Unlike in the US, most of the US detainees and deportees born in Central, S. America, and the Caribbean [View all] pnwmom Jul 19 OP

Because the religion of a deportee... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 19 #1

You are assuming that anti-Catholic bigotry doesn't exist. I know it does. pnwmom Jul 19 #2

I know it does too... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 19 #3

What ICE is doing is racism, not religious bigotry...nt Wounded Bear Jul 19 #4

Catholic parishes in the US are also massively segregated Prairie Gates Jul 19 #5

They aren't where I live. But there are individual masses said in languages other than English, pnwmom Jul 19 #8

Tom Homan is Catholic. dalton99a Jul 19 #6

These people aren't being deported because they're Catholic. Morbius Jul 19 #7

It's the combination that appeals to lots of MAGA. They wouldn't be as eager to deport pnwmom Jul 19 #9