Posted on 02/12/2025 7:47:49 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations of migrants, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity and “will end badly.”
Francis took the remarkable step of addressing the U.S. migrant crackdown in a letter to U.S. bishops in which he appeared to take direct aim at Vice President JD Vance's defense of the deportation program on theological grounds.
U.S. border czar Tom Homan immediately pushed back, noting that the Vatican is a city-state surrounded by walls and that Francis should leave border enforcement to his office.
History's first Latin American pope has long made caring for migrants a priority of his pontificate, citing the biblical command to “welcome the stranger” in demanding that countries welcome, protect, promote and integrate those fleeing conflicts, poverty and climate disasters. Francis has also said governments are expected to do so to the limits of their capacity.
The Argentine Jesuit and President Donald Trump have long sparred over migration, including before Trump's first administration when Francis in 2016 famously said anyone who builds a wall to keep out migrants was “not a Christian.”
In the letter, Francis said nations have the right to defend themselves and keep their communities safe from criminals.
“That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness,” he wrote.
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How many homeless has the Vatican taken in?.......yeah, that’s what I thought.
How long before the AP folds up shop because USAID can’t buy subscriptions.
Zip it, Frankenpope. You don’t the authority to tell the US of A what we CAN and CAN’T do with OUR borders! Capisce?!
Such a hypocrite, this so called Pope.
Frankie insists on flapping his gums...yet again.
Satan has plans for this so called pope. A big party to welcome him home.
Fine. Don’t deport them to their home countries. Send them to the Vatican.
The pope is in control of EXTREME wealth. how many “wanderers” has the Vatican taken in and supported? This tool is such a pathetic hypocrite.
Let’s send all the poor “asylum seekers” to the Vatican and make that pious POS practice what he preaches.
We are long past needing to revoke tax status on churches.
My favorite pope would have been Guido Sarduchi :)
FTP
Frank has a wall and a security detail around his house to keep people out.
When was the last time this Pope talked about religion, saving souls, etc.?
Trump is looking for a new home for the Gaza Palestinians. Ireland and the Vatican can handle them.
Guess the Dope is worried about losing the $1.6 billion in US Government grants to “Catholic Charities”
I love how liberals who think that any Republican, including the twice-divorced Donald Trump, who takes office is planning on imposing a theocracy on the United States, but when the Pope starts issuing commands about how the US should change its policies to allow immigration to the maximum extent of its capacity, they are fine with it.
Trivial nothingness proffered by the principle ruler of a trivial nation
Exactly, I’m sure there’s plenty of room for MS-13 members Venezuelan gang members, pedo’s, traffickers, drug runners, and murders. Some are probably a combination of those crimes.
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