Some restaurants, hospitals and construction firms pushed forward with layoffs as the end of temporary protected status for 232,000 Salvadorans loomed.
The Salvadoran-born bishop is leaving Washington to lead the Catholic Church in West Virginia, where Catholics and Latinos are a tiny slice of the population.
Xinis said the 90-day window of removal for Abrego Garcia closed long ago and there was no reason to believe that the Trump administration would deport Abrego Garcia immediately. She also said there was no legal basis to keep him detained in the meantime.