A Jesuit border priest on Trump and the plight of migrants

This week’s episode of “Jesuitical” features a conversation with Brian Strassburger, S.J., a Jesuit priest who serves as the director of Del Camino Jesuit Border Ministries in the Diocese of Brownsville, Tex., and a co-host of the Jesuit Border Podcast. In his ministry, Brian not only celebrates Mass in migrant shelters and camps at the U.S.-Mexico border, but he and his team also provide basic orientation and advocacy for migrants navigating the complex U.S. immigration system.

Zac, Ashley and Brian discuss: 

- What the election of Donald J. Trump might mean for migrants and his border ministry

- How Brian talks to Catholics who are concerned about chaos at the border and want to see greater immigration restrictions

- Brian’s vision of heaven: one where the poor and migrants are welcomed and honored, rather than dismissed and betrayed

Links for further reading: 

The Betrayal of American Border Policy 

The Jesuit Border Podcast 

Del Camino Jesuit Border Ministries 

Donald Trump’s election has brought new fear to immigrant communities

As U.S. Catholic bishops meet, Trump looms over their work on abortion and immigration

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