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Episcopalians Protest Trump Immigration Policies Outside Hutto Detention Center

by Chronicle Staff July 9, 2018October 30, 2025

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry leads fellow Episcopalians in a prayer service outside the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in solidarity with women who are incarcerated there. Here he invokes the Statue of Liberty while reciting the “The New Colossus,” the poem inscribed on the statue. Bishop Curry came to international attention when he delivered a sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry leads fellow Episcopalians in a prayer service outside the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in solidarity with women who are incarcerated there. Here he invokes the Statue of Liberty while reciting the “The New Colossus,” the poem inscribed on the statue. Bishop Curry came to international attention when he delivered a sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry leads fellow Episcopalians in a prayer service outside the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in solidarity with women who are incarcerated there. Here he invokes the Statue of Liberty while reciting the “The New Colossus,” the poem inscribed on the statue. Bishop Curry came to international attention when he delivered a sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry leads fellow Episcopalians in a prayer service outside the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in solidarity with women who are incarcerated there. Here he invokes the Statue of Liberty while reciting the “The New Colossus,” the poem inscribed on the statue. Bishop Curry came to international attention when he delivered a sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry leads fellow Episcopalians in a prayer service outside the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in solidarity with women who are incarcerated there. Here he invokes the Statue of Liberty while reciting the “The New Colossus,” the poem inscribed on the statue. Bishop Curry came to international attention when he delivered a sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry leads fellow Episcopalians in a prayer service outside the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in solidarity with women who are incarcerated there. Here he invokes the Statue of Liberty while reciting the “The New Colossus,” the poem inscribed on the statue. Bishop Curry came to international attention when he delivered a sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry leads fellow Episcopalians in a prayer service outside the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in solidarity with women who are incarcerated there. Here he invokes the Statue of Liberty while reciting the “The New Colossus,” the poem inscribed on the statue. Bishop Curry came to international attention when he delivered a sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry leads fellow Episcopalians in a prayer service outside the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in solidarity with women who are incarcerated there. Here he invokes the Statue of Liberty while reciting the “The New Colossus,” the poem inscribed on the statue. Bishop Curry came to international attention when he delivered a sermon at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May.
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