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In 2022, Pope Francis was asked about the U.S. bishops’ conference and identified one man, El Paso, Texas, Bishop Mark Seitz, as an example of a “good pastor.” Seitz, who had just been named to head the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee at the time, has lived up to Francis’ model, becoming a defender of immigrants without legal status in his border diocese and, with the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, the face of Catholic resistance to a harsher reprise of the president’s anti-immigrant policies.