In Brockton, a poor city of about 95,000 people south of Boston, four churches have pledged to take in immigrants fearful of being deported
According to the authorities, an armed group entered the local parish in the municipality of Poza Rica and kidnapped the priest and two other men.
The crisis is putting pressure on Church doctrine that bans all forms of contraception, and has even stoked a debate over abortion in many conservative Latin American nations.
The Republican hopeful visited the First Presbyterian Church in Muscatine.
Rosa Robles Loreto, 42, says she is not leaving Southside Presbyterian Church until she has certainty that she will not be deported.