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BumRushDaShow

(167,355 posts)
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 08:07 AM 13 hrs ago

Kristi Noem's DHS is demanding priests prove citizenship based on skin color: cardinal

Source: Raw Story

February 10, 2026 8:47PM ET


A prominent Catholic leader in the Archdiocese of Chicago is alleging that Department of Homeland Security agents are stopping priests and demanding they prove their citizenship, based solely on the color of their skin.

According to Religion News Service, Cardinal Blase Cupich "made the allegation in a Jan. 17 interview with WTTW, a Chicago PBS affiliate, and in an interview published Friday (Feb. 6) in the U.S. edition of El País, a Spanish newspaper. 'I’ve had some priests who are of a different color being targeted and arrested — stopped — because of their color and asking them to prove that they’re citizens. That’s not America,' Cupich told the PBS affiliate. 'We should not have to live in a country where people have to carry around their documents all the time.'"

Cupich continued, “It brings terror into a city where not just immigrants, but the population, feel as though they’re being terrorized by the ways that these roundups are going. This is really unheard of. That kind of tactic is really fueling the outrage of people, not only because of the murders that we had in Minneapolis, but also because of our experience here.”

President Donald Trump spent months ramping up immigration enforcement in Chicago, despite the fact that crime in the city was plunging before the operation began.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/chicago-cardinal/

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Kristi Noem's DHS is demanding priests prove citizenship based on skin color: cardinal (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 13 hrs ago OP
Well, apparently, now it is. And they wonder why they get called the Gestapo. Ray Bruns 12 hrs ago #1
Maggot Fundamentalist pastors paying Fat Piggie to stop their competition? Wonder Why 12 hrs ago #2
That's my thought. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E 10 hrs ago #13
So for all the Christians , ectera that supported this POS don't yo just get a warm fuzzy feeling..........that turbinetree 12 hrs ago #3
Unless he's holding a voters registration card, whathehell 3 hrs ago #29
well, here we go. AllaN01Bear 11 hrs ago #4
DEMANDING Catholic Priests show PROOF of citizenship is the same as .... ProudMNDemocrat 11 hrs ago #5
The USCCB Miguelito Loveless 11 hrs ago #6
I believe you are correct, Dr! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E 10 hrs ago #14
Hmmm, there was another guy who did just this about 80 years ago. it's on the tip of my tongue... Javaman 11 hrs ago #7
I would love to see the priests demand that Noem prove she isn't Satan by having holy water sprinkled on her. LaMouffette 11 hrs ago #8
Give her the old test for discovering witches FakeNoose 9 hrs ago #17
Thank you for the lovely hearts, fellow DUer! LaMouffette 5 hrs ago #25
So much for respecting religion iemanja 10 hrs ago #9
That's because, to many MAGAts, Wednesdays 10 hrs ago #11
True. iemanja 10 hrs ago #12
I partly grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic church which -back then 1960's- was pretty obscure.... electric_blue68 6 hrs ago #23
This aught to go over bigly with our 6 Opus Dei supreme court justices. BComplex 10 hrs ago #10
It's only Amy Coney Barrett, and maybe Alito (?) FakeNoose 8 hrs ago #18
When he's not sleeping BumRushDaShow 6 hrs ago #22
Nope. BComplex 5 hrs ago #27
But not all all well with Pope Leo Jilly_in_VA 5 hrs ago #26
LOL popsdenver 9 hrs ago #15
Noem and her boss want Dems to be required to wear big blue stars Bayard 9 hrs ago #16
Not many Catholic priests vote D these days FakeNoose 7 hrs ago #20
I'm guessing that skin color is brown. maxsolomon 8 hrs ago #19
Their motto "If you ain't whites, you have no rights". twodogsbarking 7 hrs ago #21
Under this regime, none of us are "whites" anymore. BComplex 5 hrs ago #28
Should I bring up the Family Guy meme? sakabatou 6 hrs ago #24

Ray Bruns

(6,118 posts)
1. Well, apparently, now it is. And they wonder why they get called the Gestapo.
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 08:34 AM
12 hrs ago

“I’ve had some priests who are of a different color being targeted and arrested — stopped — because of their color and asking them to prove that they’re citizens. That’s not America”

turbinetree

(27,227 posts)
3. So for all the Christians , ectera that supported this POS don't yo just get a warm fuzzy feeling..........that
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 09:08 AM
12 hrs ago

you are next on the list of the Snow Queen, Stephen Miller and that orange hair traitor..........man o man "your god" is really fucked up to have thought that the present POS's was going to "love" you...............maybe you should go back and re-read the evolution of World War II................if you skipped that class of history..............

whathehell

(30,398 posts)
29. Unless he's holding a voters registration card,
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 05:55 PM
3 hrs ago

I'm pretty sure it wasn't "your" god, "their" god, or anyone else's who put Chump in the White House..just sayin'.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,693 posts)
5. DEMANDING Catholic Priests show PROOF of citizenship is the same as ....
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 09:19 AM
11 hrs ago

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION???

Who's doing the persecuting Donnie?

Javaman

(65,435 posts)
7. Hmmm, there was another guy who did just this about 80 years ago. it's on the tip of my tongue...
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 09:42 AM
11 hrs ago

oh yeah, FUCKING HITLER.

LaMouffette

(2,598 posts)
8. I would love to see the priests demand that Noem prove she isn't Satan by having holy water sprinkled on her.
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 09:52 AM
11 hrs ago

It would be like Linda Blair in The Exorcist. I would post a video clip, but it's way too disturbing, but not as disturbing as what Noem is doing to the people she and Rump and the ICE goons are arresting—and murdering.

FakeNoose

(40,814 posts)
17. Give her the old test for discovering witches
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 12:01 PM
9 hrs ago

This goes back to the Middle Ages, and probably the Inquisition. They would take any woman who was suspected of "witchcraft" and tie her up, and toss her into a deep lake or river.
If she floats, she's a witch ... so go ahead and hang her.
If she sinks, she's not a witch ... and it's so sad that she just drowned.

iemanja

(57,640 posts)
9. So much for respecting religion
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 10:41 AM
10 hrs ago

They threw a fit when protestors and journalists entered a church in Minneapolis, but it's okay if they single out priests of color.

electric_blue68

(26,477 posts)
23. I partly grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic church which -back then 1960's- was pretty obscure....
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 02:28 PM
6 hrs ago

In the sense that Ukraine was part of The Soviet Union, and not a free country that people in general knew of. It just so happened that NY had (may still have) the largest group of U-As in the USA. I'm half 2nd gen Ukrainian American.

Then if my dad was too tired to drive us to that church in the Bronx, we were in Washington Heights; we usually walked about 1/2 mile to the Roman Catholic partly Hispanic church in WH.

I had no idea at first about the "problems" some Christians had with Catholics. The comments (I was only 7 when JFK was elected, 10 when he was assassinated) about him being "the first Catholic President" went over my head back then.

Idk if any of the priests in that RC church were of color. we weren't up front.

Anyway damn DHS and their goonery!

FakeNoose

(40,814 posts)
18. It's only Amy Coney Barrett, and maybe Alito (?)
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 12:29 PM
8 hrs ago

The rest of them don't give a rat's ass. Barrett has toned down her rhetoric too, but I think she's still a rabid Catholic.

BumRushDaShow

(167,355 posts)
22. When he's not sleeping
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 02:11 PM
6 hrs ago

Thomas is a rabid Catholic. Gorsuch is a "lapsed" Catholic, or better "a good Catholic gone wrong" Episcopalian (as the saying goes ). Boof boy Kavanaugh is a Catholic and of course "Daddy Roberts" is one.

On the other side, Sotomayor is a "normal" Catholic.

BComplex

(9,815 posts)
27. Nope.
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 03:56 PM
5 hrs ago

There are now six justices on the right wing who are either practicing Catholics (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Barrett) or were raised Catholic (Neil Gorsuch, now an Episcopalian).

The Catholic justices who subscribe to Opus Dei are John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett. I think Brett Kavanaugh has been leaning that way since being on the court.

And Neil Gorsuch was raised Catholic, and he's probably the one most likely to NOT be Opus Dei, but would, nevertheless, likely not appreciate Noam going after Catholic priests.

Jilly_in_VA

(14,108 posts)
26. But not all all well with Pope Leo
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 03:19 PM
5 hrs ago

who is, after all, an AMERICAN. He could excommunicate, by writ, all Catholics in ICE and CBP, not to mention those in Shitler's administration. It's been done, although many hundreds of years ago. Or he could simply place them under a ban.

popsdenver

(1,900 posts)
15. LOL
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 11:17 AM
9 hrs ago

My only thought is that they, (Ice and Border Patrol) are sorting thru the Catholic Priests to see which ones they can rely on to back Trump/Musk up, or serve on a jury, if they are ever charged with Pedophilia.........

Next will be the Boy Scouts of America, etc

Sorry, couldn't resist............I could say more, but don't want to get my wrist slapped by anyone for stating facts.....

Bayard

(29,023 posts)
16. Noem and her boss want Dems to be required to wear big blue stars
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 11:49 AM
9 hrs ago

Other colors required for their various prejudices.

FakeNoose

(40,814 posts)
20. Not many Catholic priests vote D these days
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 01:21 PM
7 hrs ago

What you say about wearing a blue star - that may be true. But the priests are all anti-abortion for many years, so if they vote at all, it's for the other side.

maxsolomon

(38,423 posts)
19. I'm guessing that skin color is brown.
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 12:33 PM
8 hrs ago

Why not? There is no accountability for ICE/CPB. Multiple homicides, and they just stonewall and gaslight until the outrage fades.

BComplex

(9,815 posts)
28. Under this regime, none of us are "whites" anymore.
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 04:00 PM
5 hrs ago

Just ask Renee Good and Alex Pretti's families. And, well, anyone who doesn't support this regime.

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