You keep throwing around “illegal activity” as if immigration status erases someone’s humanity. It doesn’t and the bishops said exactly that. That’s what you’re dodging.
Biblically, the command is simple: care for the stranger, the foreigner, the vulnerable - full stop.
There’s no asterisk that says “only if their paperwork is correct" and the bishops didn’t call for “supporting illegal activity.”
They condemned cruelty, fear, family separation, and dehumanizing policies all things the Bible explicitly rejects.
You can talk about doctrine all you want, but you’re deflecting from the actual point: the bishops publicly rebuked Trump and Vance.
Not Biden.
Not Pelosi.
Trump. And Vance.
You can pretend that’s about “politics,” but the bishops themselves said they are speaking out because of Christian moral teaching, not party loyalty.
If you want to ignore them, that’s your choice but don’t act like your personal politics outrank the very bishops you claim to defend.