T he new bishop appointed to lead West Virginia Catholics has pledged to continue speaking up for immigrants in the mould of Pope Leo , who appointed him last week amid ongoing tension between Donald Trump and the Vatican. The Right Rev Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, 55, is not planning to hide his views after being elevated from assistant bishop in Washington DC to lead the diocese that covers West Virginia – the first Latino American bishop from El Salvador , who left Central America as a teenager and arrived in the US smuggled in the trunk of a car. “I will keep talking about people’s reality, defending immigrants and fighting for fair treatment for them,” Menjivar-Ayala said in an interview with the Guardian at the offices of the archdiocese of Washington, in Hyattsville, Maryland. It’s been almost 40 years since Menjivar-Ayala fled El Salvador’s civil war and crossed the US-Mexico border into California, but Washington’s auxiliary bishop hasn’t forgotten his past.…