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Baez was one of four men ordained as Jesuit priests Saturday morning at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in San Ysidro, which has a view of the Tijuana hills. And the location of the annual Jesuit ordination was not random. In fact, it had been in the making for about a year.

“We chose San Diego really because it was a way of showing how important immigration is to us,” said the Rev. Scott Santarosa, provincial for the Jesuit West province of 10 Western states. “Two of the four men are themselves immigrants. The other two, as part of that formation, worked with deported immigrants in Nogales.”

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