Nov. 13 (UPI) -- America's Catholic bishops sent sharp criticism of rising fear in the United States and ongoing mass deportations in a rebuke of Trump administration immigration policy. On Wednesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said its some 273 active bishops were "disturbed" to see that "among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement." "We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants,"