Since 1994, Marcial Sánchez has attended Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in downtown Durham.
He pointed out some empty pews at the 1:30 p.m. Spanish Mass and said a weekly Saturday prayer that usually draws a couple hundred people was also sparsely attended.
“What’s happening is very sad, because to me, these men are violating constitutional laws,” Sánchez said in Spanish. “They’re supposed to take people with orders of deportation, felons, but they’re stopping and questioning people with brown skin who they run into.”…