![\"Faither](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/csnx3jujzkddj85r.jpg\")
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas – Faith communities in Texas are calling on Governor Greg Abbott and legislative leaders to take action to end ICE violence.<\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
Texas Impact held a news conference Wednesday at the Texas Capitol to call for state government oversight of ICE activities in Texas and to call for the end of violent immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n
The organization says it is doing so after the deaths of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Joan Sebasti\u00e1n Guerrero in Maine, and Juan Jairo Coronilla Dur\u00e1n in Florida.<\/p>\n
Representatives from Christian denominations and other faith traditions in Texas including the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; the United Methodist Church; the Episcopal Diocese of Texas; the South Central Conference of the United Church of Christ; the National Council of Jewish Women; and more are expected to attend.<\/p>\n
Watch the full press conference below:<\/p>\n
Texas Impact held a press conference at the Texas Capitol calling for responsible state government oversight of ICE activities in Texas and an end to the current violent immigration enforcement regime.<\/p>\n The Source: Information from Texas Impact news release.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Austin<\/a>Top Stories<\/a>Texas Politics<\/a>Immigration<\/a>Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas – Faith communities in Texas are calling on Governor Greg Abbott and legislative leaders to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1724,223,287,2053,394,216,395,393],"class_list":["post-383455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-immigration","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-tx-politics","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383455","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=383455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"FULL:](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/v6seg70dej9wfyuo.jpg\")
FULL: Faith leaders against ICE violence<\/a> <\/p>\n