Anyone hoping that the situation would improve with a new pope is going to be disappointed.

Pope Leo told [Bishop] Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

Seitz serves as chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration.

The group from El Paso, which also included Auxiliary Bishop Anthony Celino, presented the pontiff with a packet of letters from immigrants in the United States and presented a four-minute video based on the words of people facing deportation.

The letters, and a video based on them, were gathered by Hope Border Institute, an El Paso-based nonprofit that uses Catholic social teaching to advocate for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Leo told the delegation, which included immigrants: “The Church cannot stay silent before injustice. You stand with me, and I stand with you.”

The Hope Border Institute is a left-wing open borders group founded by Vatican officials and funded by all the usual suspects.

The meeting is an obvious political stunt, much like the past ‘phone calls’ to Gaza, with an obvious agenda.

Pope Leo insists that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee isn’t sufficiently pro-illegal and anti-Trump.

That may sound bizarre, but Pope Leo seems to be continuing his predecessor’s agenda of pushing the Catholic Church further to the Left. And is using illegal aliens to engineer that transformation.