“The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants; who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they – they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors.”

Bishop Budde has been outspoken against Trump in the past.

In 2020, when Trump posed with a Bible outside St. John’s Episcopal Church after law enforcement cleared out racial justice protesters using chemical agents, the bishop responded by saying: “Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence… We need moral leadership, and he’s done everything to divide us.”

Additionally, during a sermon, the bishop emphasized: “I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. And that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger,” she continued. “For we were all once strangers in this land.”

When asked about the bishop’s sermon, President Trump shared that he “didn’t think it was a good service.”

Republican U.S. Representative Mike Collins from Georgia took to social media to express his thoughts on the sermon. He stated, “The person giving this sermon should be added to the deportation list.”