When the Church fears for the faithful, not just from some made up bogeyman like modernism (I too was scared of Bauhaus the first time I heard about it, Your Holiness), but from a credible threat caused by the government of wherever the faithful happen to be...
That's bad. It would be nice if the rest of the faithful, because there are 61.9 million of us in all (even about 20 million give or take a few hundred thousand might not call me a Catholic, I'll live and keep doing what I'm doing), did something like took up arms, or just locked arms, whatever (pacifism is really nice if it works, and it can work, but boy does it take patience and persistence, but so do...other options), to protect the oppressed both in and outside the Community of the Faithful.
If we were to rehash McCarthyism and the "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" question to the head of ICE in front of the Senate...
I've got a feeling Todd Lyons would pull out a gun and bullrush the senator that asked, probably screaming 'You're going to CECOT, bitch!' while his goons dragged them out of the Senate and into the waiting unmarked van.
Also, we've got the American Pope now, he should just slam and interdict on every Catholic involved in the government or maybe on the whole country (barring baptisms and blessings of the sick/dying etc.) until such time as we sort our dictatorship out.