When they’re not making it illegal to breathe air an immigrant might have farted in or using family members as bait to get one another deported, Oklahoma is erecting shrines to Saint Toribio, patron of immigrants:

The idea came from a parishioner, Simone Navarro, shortly before Oklahoma’s immigration law — the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007 — went into effect last Nov. 1.

“I wanted a place where immigrants could pray in peace,” Navarro, a native of Mexico, told the Eastern Oklahoma Catholic, Tulsa’s diocesan newspaper.

Aw, that’s sweet. It’s so nice that such a shrine exists for Latinos to visit with other Latinos while being either ignored or hated by non-Latinos. It really brings people together who would otherwise have been all together, you know? Precious.

Tulsa parish establishes shrine to patron saint of immigrants [Catholic Church]