Posted on 05/08/2025 6:43:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Social media posts from Robert Prevost, newly named Pope Leo XIV, show recent criticism of the Trump administration's immigration policies.
Within the first 100 days of his second term, the president invoked the Alien Enemies Act, granting him authority to deport and detain noncitizens. The implementation was originally blocked in court.
This year, he has five posts on X, formerly Twitter, with two about immigration.
In the first immigration-related X post on February 13, Prevost said: "Pope Francis' letter, JD Vance's 'ordo amoris' and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration," copying a link from America the Jesuit Review.
The article says in part: "it ought to be clear that Catholics cannot support a rhetoric that demonizes immigrants as dangerously criminal simply because they have crossed the border in search of a better life for themselves and their families. It ought to be clear that Catholics cannot celebrate aggressive deportation enforcement as a spectacle. It ought to be clear that Catholics cannot accept a theory of love that pats itself on the back for putting some of the poorest among us farthest from our concern and charity."
The article adds: "The Gospel does not offer a charter for how to legislate about immigration. It does offer a standard for how far we are to go to love our neighbor, and a refusal to accept the limits we might be comfortable with on who our neighbors are."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
The second post on April 14 was a repost from X account Rocco Palmo: "As Trump & Bukele use Oval to Feds' illicit deportation of a US resident (https://bit.ly/3ROMjnP), once an undoc-ed Salvadorean himself, now-DC Aux +Evelio asks, 'Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?' https://bit.ly/4j700KN"
The post is in reference to the deportation of El Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a case that has gripped the nation and lawmakers in Washington.
This was a strange post by him. What’s he talking about? Is he trying to say people shouldn’t be sent to jail if it separates the from family?
Then almost nobody would ever wind up in jail.
Or does it mean only certain people (migrants) shouldn’t be separated from family if arrested?
I question Catholic Charities’ involvement in the invasion of my country....
It is quite possible that he never actually reasoned the issue out logically while considering both sides. Few people do. Most people just parrot what they hear.
How about tearing down that Vatican wall.
This Poopsie is going to have the Catholic church being required to pay taxes if the aho wants to play politics.
Hey, Padre. There is legal immigration and there is illegal immigration. “Hey all you Amorites, Philistines, and Moabites! Come on into Israel!”
Would he have said any such things if it was German Lutherans immivading?
Nah. Woulda been, “burn them at the stake!”
I question Catholic Charities’ involvement in the invasion of my country...
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From what I’ve read, Catholic Charities was a very big player in the invasion.
I see dead Americans. I see men, women and children who were just going about their business raped, tortured, robbed, beaten and murdered by criminals. I see their suffering. I see their families suffering. But this dude doesn't see it or care.
I would like for his conscience to be disturbed but I am afraid he has seared it with a hot iron.
And no, I will not be quiet.
I do not care what office he has been appointed to. This kind of person is just plain evil.
Someone should tell him that an illegal alien invasion is not “immigration.”
Amen!
There’s also something untruthful about this Newsweek article.... It says:
“His family denies any ties to gangs and Abrego Garcia has no criminal record in the United States. In 2021, his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, accused him of domestic violence and filed paperwork to obtain a restraining order but says they have since reconciled.”
Wasn’t he caught human smuggling in Tennessee by cops? See here:
RE: This was a strange post by him. What’s he talking about? Is he trying to say people shouldn’t be sent to jail if it separates the from family?
Pope Leo spent over a decade in Peru and has dealt with refugees from Venezuela. As a result, he has this Latin American mindset and see’s things from their perspective.
Even in his initial speech as Pope, he spoke in Italian and Spanish, bypassing English altogether ( never mind that it is the most spoken and learned language in the world ).
Well, we all know Bobby P. will be importing millions of thieving immigrants into his Vatican. Can’t wait to see it.
Those who break the law are criminals.
Criminals deserve punishment.
Illegal immigrants are criminals.
Punish them.
PS - Mr. Pope, TEAR DOWN YOUR WALL!!!
Jerk
Follow the NGO $$$
Why is it that the Pope critisizes the US for our stance on illegal immigration but doesn’t say anything about the countries they come from and their governments that create such messes of their own country.
So we get another commie globalist Pope who doesn’t think being a pedo is a dealbreaker. And we get him for probably 20 years...
Great.
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