In mid-October, Catholic clergy arrived at the doors of the makeshift ICE detention center in Broadview, Illinois, in hopes of bringing the Eucharist, the central sacrament of the faith, to those inside. As Father David Inczauskis walked alongside the procession, he felt a spark of hope: Maybe ICE really would allow a delegation from their group to offer Communion to people in federal custody. Hundreds of people walked with Inczauskis and fellow clergy, bearing signs invoking scriptural themes alongside images of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a dazzling icon of the Virgin Mary as she appeared to an Indigenous peasant in the 16th century in what is now Mexico. Some helped hold aloft the gold-and-white canopy that protected the monstrance, a vessel for displaying the body of Christ.

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