San Bernardino Roman Catholic Bishop Alberto Rojas issued a dispensation Tuesday evening, offering members of his diocese's roughly one million parishioners in danger of being deported the option to stay home Sundays.

Critics warn that agents' tactic of masking spreads fear and panic across communities and imperils citizens as well as immigrants without legal status.

Tom Homan, the border czar for President Donald Trump, said that immigration agents will ramp up arrests in New York City as part of a broader crackdown on sanctuary jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal authorities.