December 29th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

Many people have made requests of West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey’s office to issue a temporary moratorium on detentions of undocumented immigrants during the holiday season.  Monsignor Reverend Paul Hudak, a Catholic priest working with Hispanic residents in Clarksburg and Morgantown, says his parishioners are now regularly being detained and arrested, including a man who worked as roofer…

   

"There's been hundreds of men who have been detained, the vast majority are male, these men who are typically breadwinners, are taken out of their homes. Usually they have wives, partners, families, therefore the breadwinner is taken from the family."