FILE - Migrants arrive at a gate in the border fence after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas, in the early hours of Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
FILE - Migrants eat and wait for assistance while camping on a street in downtown El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Christian voters and faith leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants – but when it comes to support for immigration policies, from border security to legalization options for migrants already in the U.S., views diverge broadly. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
FILE - Senior Pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress addresses attendees before Vice President Mike Pence made comments at First Baptist Church Dallas during a Celebrate Freedom Rally in Dallas, Sunday, June 28, 2020. “At First Baptist Church in Dallas we do not check for green cards----that’s government’s responsibility,” Jeffress says. “The Bible teaches that God created the institution of government to protect its citizens … Christians have a duty to obey the laws government establishes which would include immigration laws.” (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
FILE - Church volunteers serve garlic bread to migrants camping outside the Sacred Heart Church in downtown El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
FILE - Migrants pray before turning themselves in to immigration authorities in downtown El Paso, Texas on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
FILE - This combination of photos shows President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump during visits to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas both on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Fueled by unprecedented numbers of asylum seekers and illegal border crossings, immigration has risen to a top concern for Americans in the 2024 presidential election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Eric Gay, File)
FILE - Migrants wake up at a campsite outside Sacred Heart Church in downtown El Paso, Texas on Tuesday morning, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
FILE - Venezuelan migrants pray at a camping site outside the Sacred Heart Church in downtown El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
FILE - A woman carries her child after she and other migrants crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
FILE - Reproductions of passports and clothes worn by migrants are placed on the arms of a cross at La Ermita, a shrine to the Virgin Mary built five decades ago by Cuban exiles, in Miami seen on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, in Miami. At bottom right is a sign with the Biblical verse, “You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers.” (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)
FILE - The Most Rev. Mark Seitz, the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, stands near supplies and clothes in a shelter for migrants on the grounds of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso in El Paso, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. “Here in El Paso, we cannot get away with living the faith abstractly. We don’t say, ‘Show me your papers.’ As Christians we say, ‘How can I help you in your suffering?’” Seitz said. “This is not a political issue in the first instance, it’s about putting into practice what Jesus Christ taught through the Church.” (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi, File)