Vice President JD Vance is pushing back on influential Catholic groups for calling President Donald Trump's revised immigration policy “contrary to the common good.”

Trump's Department of Homeland Security last week announced it would roll back the existing policy intended to "thwart law enforcement in or near so-called sensitive areas," which would include churches and schools. 

The policy change in other words would allows law enforcement agents to make arrests in or the such institutions. 

The opposition to the change was expressed by Bishop Mark J. Seitz, chairman of the Catholic organization's migration committee and leaders of other Catholic groups in a statement Thursday regarding what they called “non-emergency immigration enforcement.” 

"Turning places of care, healing, and solace into places of fear and uncertainty for those in need, while endangering the trust between pastors, providers, educators and the people they serve, will not make our communities safer," the group also said. 

In a CBS interviewed aired Sunday, Vance, a Catholic, defended the change in guidance, saying, "Of course, if you have a person who is convicted of a violent crime, whether they're an illegal immigrant or a non-illegal immigrant, you have to go and get that person to protect the public safety."

He also suggested the Catholic bishops response was financially motived.

“I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns?" he said. "Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?"