Archbishop José Gomez has launched a program Wednesday to offer aid to families who have been impacted by immigration enforcement raids across Southern California.
The Family Assistance Program will administer aid directly to individual parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Los Angeles as they work to provide groceries, meals and prescription deliveries to those affected.
“There are, in many of our parishes, the number of people coming is less than it was before because they are afraid,” Gomez told NBC Los Angeles. “They are afraid to go to the grocery store. They are afraid to go to church. They are afraid to go out because they don’t know what is gonna happen.”…