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Threats to Catholic Charities staffers increase amid far-right anti-migrant campaign

Exclude from home pageBNG staff  |  March 25, 2024

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The man who left a recording on Appaswamy “Vino” Pajanor’s voicemail earlier this month spoke with an even keel, but his message was anything but calm. Over the course of roughly 40 seconds, the caller accused Pajanor, the head of Catholic Charities San Diego, of “facilitating illegal immigration,” “breaking the law” and being “not really Christian.”

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