General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnlike in the US, most of the US detainees and deportees born in Central, S. America, and the Caribbean
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

SickOfTheOnePct
(8,013 posts)...would only be relevant if religious belief was the basis for the deportation. Correlation v. causation.
pnwmom
(109,979 posts)So why should I assume that their non-WASP religion isn't one of the factors that led to their being scapegoated?
SickOfTheOnePct
(8,013 posts)...I see it here all the time.
But what makes you believe that Catholic bigotry is behind the deportations? Seems to me that if they were looking specifically for Catholics to deport, they would hang around the outside of Catholic churches and grab parishioners as they left Mass.
Wounded Bear
(62,541 posts)Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)IN part, this is just a function of parishes being associated with geographical neighborhoods which are themselves segregated. So, you could be Catholic in some parts of say, Queens NY and be in church almost exclusively with white European-heritage Catholics from Italian, Croatian, and Irish backgrounds, whereas a parish in another neighborhood would be almost entirely made up of Central American-heritage parishioners and people of Dominican-Puerto Rican origin. This is true throughout the country. Obviously, there are some parishes that are more "mixed" than others demographically, and this is more the case as the church shrinks and closes/combines parishes. But by and large, the Catholic Church in the US is affected and marked by the segregation and demographic isolation that prevails commonly in US society.
pnwmom
(109,979 posts)and that draws people from the same background together. But the Parish itself has a broad mix of people.
The situation you describe does sound like what my parents' experience was, growing up, but it changed as Catholics became more assimilated. We don't have an Irish neighborhood, a Polish neighborhood, etc, with corresponding parishes. We have cities with varying numbers of Catholic churches, which tend to draw whatever Catholics live in the surrounding neighborhood.
dalton99a
(89,497 posts)Morbius
(583 posts)They're being deported because they're brown.
pnwmom
(109,979 posts)these brown people if they were all Southern Baptists.