This morning, Pope Francis expressed his deep displeasure about President Trump’s mass deportations of illegals in a letter he sent to all US Bishops.

He seems to understand the deportations of criminal illegals from a public safety perspective, but he disagrees with deporting the other illegals, who he suggests have done no wrong, and are here because of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment.

He says to deport them ‘damages’ their dignity and “places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.”

Below is what he said:

I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations. The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality. At the same time, one must recognize the right of a nation to defend itself and keep communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival. 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.

 
Tom Homan was asked about this today and, as a lifelong Catholic, he bluntly said that the Pope needs to concentrate on his work and fix the Catholic Church and “leave border enforcement to us.”

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