{"id":92550,"date":"2025-12-22T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92550\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:48:08","slug":"miami-religious-leaders-make-plea-to-trump-desantis-to-halt-immigration-enforcement-during-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92550\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami religious leaders make plea to Trump, DeSantis to halt immigration enforcement during holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/religion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Religious<\/a> leaders in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami<\/a> held a news conference on Monday urging President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> and Florida Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/ron-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> to pause <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">immigration<\/a> enforcement during the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a recent statement by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/pope-leo-xiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a> condemning the treatment of migrants in the U.S. as &#8220;extremely disrespectful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A temporary halt to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/mass-deportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">mass deportations<\/a> would allow families to remain together during Christmas and prevent unnecessary trauma to children,&#8221; Archbishop Thomas Wenski said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Wenski held the news conference at the Archdiocese of Miami Pastoral Center in Miami Shores late Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing. Be sure to check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Religious leaders in Miami held a news conference on Monday urging President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[409,1841,45811,123,125,124,1064,43352,1739,412,807],"class_list":["post-92550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-mass-deportation","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-religion","tag-ron-desantis","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}