The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures…. ICE agents don’t get to kidnap someone, from a coffee shop parking lot, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process…. Holding someone against their will while refusing to tell them why, or denying them access to contact anyone, is a constitutional violation

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BREAKING🚨 ICE just detained a Catholic nun on her way to Sunday Mass in McAllen. Her crime: driving to church. Her name is Sister Letty, and her parish spent the day begging anyone with ICE for a phone call back. Sister Norma Pimentel, who runs Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley and is one of the most respected humanitarian figures on the entire border, confirmed it: Sister Letty was picked up Sunday morning while driving to Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Church. Then came the part that tells you everything. Sister Norma said she called ICE to find out what was happening to one of her own sisters. They never called her back. So the parish did the only thing it could. Our Lady of Sorrows posted to its parish family and asked them to pray for Sister Letty by name, because nobody could tell them where she was or when she'd be out. This is in McAllen — a city where the Catholic Church has spent years running shelters, feeding families, and washing the feet of people the government dropped at the bus station. The same Church the administration keeps thanking for handling the border so the feds don't have to. And on a Sunday morning, agents grabbed one of its nuns off the road to church. The Democratic congressman for the area, Vicente Gonzalez, said the quiet part plainly: these aggressive immigration sweeps have now led to nuns being targeted on their way to Sunday Mass, a far cry from the criminals the administration promised to deport. Even the area's Republican congresswoman, Monica de la Cruz, conceded a nun headed to church is not a threat to the community and said she was working with DHS to fix it. She was eventually released. But sit with the math for just a second: it took a U.S. nun, two members of Congress from BOTH parties, and the most prominent Catholic charity on the border to get one sister freed after she committed the crime of driving to Mass.