Aleja Hertzler-McCain

The Trump administration is planning to spend more than $38 billion on warehouses to detain migrants in the United States.

Bishop Brendan Cahill of Texas, who leads the Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration, calls those plans deeply troubling.

Cahill calls it a misuse of taxpayer funds and adds, quote,

In a leaked document, the Department of Homeland Security says their use of, quote, non-traditional facilities will meet a growing demand for beds and streamlined detention and removal.

Cahill says the private prison industry has the most to gain.

For NPR News, I'm Aleja Hertzler-McCain.

The Trump administration is planning to spend more than $38 billion on warehouses to detain migrants in the United States.

Bishop Brendan Cahill of Texas, who leads the Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration, calls those plans deeply troubling.

Cahill calls it a misuse of taxpayer funds and adds, quote,

In a leaked document, the Department of Homeland Security says their use of, quote, non-traditional facilities will meet a growing demand for beds and streamlined detention and removal.

Cahill says the private prison industry has the most to gain.

For NPR News, I'm Aleja Hertzler-McCain.

The largest Latin American countries are now only two-thirds Catholic.

In some, like Brazil, Catholic adults make up less than half the population.

This represents a significant decrease over the last 10 years.

That's largely because many Latin Americans are becoming religiously unaffiliated.

But being unaffiliated doesn't mean they don't believe in God or pray daily.

They actually report doing both at almost the same rate as European Christians.

Latin American Pentecostals have been an important demographic politically.

Their support has been linked to conservative success, but Pew's data shows that now a smaller share of Latin American Protestants are Pentecostal as compared to a decade ago.