Pope Francis on Sunday criticised President-elect Donald Trump’s reported plan to sharply intensify immigration enforcement actions throughout the U.S. within the days after his inauguration.
In an Italian tv interview, the pontiff mentioned it might be a “shame” if Trump went ahead with the plan, in unusually forceful language for the chief of the worldwide Catholic Church.
“It might make the migrants, who don’t have anything, pay the unpaid invoice,” mentioned the pope. “It does not work. You do not resolve issues this fashion.”
The pope’s remarks had been made throughout a video hyperlink from his Vatican residence with the “Che Tempo Che Fa” program on Italy’s Channel 9.
Francis, chief of the 1.4 billion member church, is often cautious about weighing in on political points.
The pope has made welcoming migrants a key theme of his almost 12-year papacy, and he has beforehand criticised Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Through the 2016 election, he mentioned Trump was “not Christian” in his view.
Incoming Trump administration officers mentioned on Saturday that the president-elect was reconsidering plans for immigration raids in Chicago subsequent week, following stories in regards to the plans.
Earlier on Sunday, Chicago’s Catholic archbishop, Cardinal Blase Cupich, additionally criticised the deliberate raids. “This is able to be an affront to the dignity of all individuals and communities,” the cardinal mentioned in a press release.
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Sayan Ganguly
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Jan 20, 2025
