{"id":214885,"date":"2026-03-22T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214885\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:36:08","slug":"seitz-others-to-hold-march-vigil-to-end-mass-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214885\/","title":{"rendered":"Seitz, others to hold march, vigil to end mass deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;KTSM&quot;}\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz, the Hope Border Institute and others will hold a march and vigil calling for the end of mass deportations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 24 at San Jacinto Plaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This comes after Seitz issued a pastoral letter condemning the Trump Administration\u2019s policy of mass deportations and mass detentions, calling them \u201ca grave moral evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/seitz-calls-mass-detention-deportations-170000029.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seitz calls mass detention, deportations a \u2018grave moral evil\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Seitz calls mass detention, deportations a \u2018grave moral evil\u2019&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Seitz calls mass detention, deportations a \u2018grave moral evil\u2019 <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The march will be led by Seitz. The El Paso bishop will be joined by the Auxiliary Bishop of Washington D.C. Evelio Menjivar, the first Salvadoran-born bishop in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The march and vigil will be held on the feast day for Saint Oscar Romero, a Salvadoran bishop and martyr known for his commitment to justice and peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Others joining the march include Estrella del Paso and local community leaders and organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz, the Hope Border Institute and others will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84046,138,140,139,84043,76844,65287,84045,18113,84044,27],"class_list":["post-214885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-catholic-bishop","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-hope-border-institute","tag-mark-seitz","tag-mass-deportations","tag-mass-detentions","tag-san-jacinto-plaza","tag-seitz","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}