In a pastoral letter that seems to take a shot at both the U.S. government and its own, the Salvadoran Catholic bishops' conference said El Salvador's prisons shouldn't be used to advance another country's anti-immigrant agenda.

It was one of many instances in which the bishops' May 29 letter, available online in Spanish, pleaded for a change in policy, and demanded a stop to attacks on migrants, including falsely depicting them as criminals.

"They are people looking for better opportunities. They are our brothers and sisters," the bishops wrote, while pleading with the Salvadoran government not to participate in the "fight of great colonizing countries against migrants."

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"We ask our leaders not to promote this country as if it were one huge international prison," they said. "We urge them to think carefully about what they are doing."