Catholic diocese tries to stop Trump's border wall that 'desecrates' 29-foot tall Jesus statue

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Sunday 21 June 2026 19:19 EDT


A Catholic diocese in New Mexico is waging a legal holy war against the Trump administration's plan to use 14 acres of church land for a new border wall — saying the plan would desecrate a 25-foot-tall, mountaintop statue of Jesus nearby. In court papers filed Friday, lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces said the church would fight the administration in court before it “surrenders even a square inch of its sacred land.”

“The law, including cases cited by the Government, is clear that the Diocese is allowed to present its defenses before the Government possesses and irreparably desecrates the holy site at Mount Cristo Rey,” they wrote. “This Court should not bless this affront to religious liberty.”

The court filing also called President Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall a “physical manifestation of this Government’s attitude toward migrants,” adding that “nothing could be less Catholic.”

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which is trying to seize the property through eminent domain, told The Independent on Sunday that “anyone who spent [30] seconds examining a map of Mount Cristo Rey and the southern border would realize how ludicrous these claims are.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-border-wall-mexico-jesus-statue-b3000023.html

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Link to FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nmd.556154/gov.uscourts.nmd.556154.36.0.pdf

REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143664909

[Norrrm]

1. More Trump wall? This must be another grift for kickbacks.

Donald said the wall is complete. 2022

You know; the wall that was to keep them from coming in.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/fact-check-trump-announcement-speech-2024/index.html

“We built the wall, and now we will add to it. Now, we built the wall – we completed the wall – and then we said let’s do more, and we did a lot more."

[Raven123]

2. The diocese has yet to figure out that "religious liberty" has always been a scam

The point was to get their support and then run over them with police’s that benefit the ruling economic class.

[Blues Heron]

3. I thought graven images were a no no

[Multichromatic]

4. Hey Catholics, you're not the right kind of Christian.

Republicans give lip service to Catholics and support them when it's convenient. You aren't MAGA evangelicals so Republicans don't actually care about your religious freedom. Facists are more than happy to crush you when it serves them. Plus, Trump hate the Pope so he NEEDS his revenge.