SECURITYJun 22 · 02:36 UTCSEATTLE TIMESReis Thebault and Paul Ratje

A diocese tries to protect Its 29-Foot Jesus from Trump’s border wall

The Department of Homeland Security is using eminent domain to seize 14 acres of desert from a Las Cruces, N.M., diocese to build 1.5 miles of new wall as part of Trump’s border wall project.

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