SAN DIEGO — A mother sat with her youngest children in the fifth row of a Logan Heights church for a different kind of Mass.

“If you know someone who has been detained or deported, please raise your hand,” the Rev. Scott Santarosa said to the dozens of parishioners gathered at Our Lady of Guadalupe church on a recent Wednesday night.

She raised her hand. So did many parishioners around her, slowly, sometimes hesitantly.

“Okay, quite a few people,” Santarosa noted. “Now, if you are affected by what is happening in this country with immigration right now, please raise your hand.”

He looked around as hands were held up again.

The special service at the Jesuit parish was held to show solidarity with immigrant communities, months into the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigra

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