ICAP represents the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, in defending against the United States Government’s efforts to exercise its power of eminent domain to take Diocesan property for the purpose of building a border wall that is contrary to Catholic values and teachings on the holy site, Mount Cristo Rey. For more than eight decades, a 29-foot-tall limestone statue of Jesus Christ has sat atop the mountain, the site of annual pilgrimages by Catholics and other people of faith in the borderland region. ICAP argues that these actions violate the Diocese’s free exercise of religion and seek to stop the condemnation.
