Trump’s “Border Emperor” tells Pope Francis to “hold on to the Catholic Church” as the Pope breaks through mass deportations

Rome – The US “Border Emperor” of President Trump, Tom Homan climbed Pope Francis on Tuesday after the leader of the Catholic Church strongly criticized Mass deportation of migrants That Mr. Trump started in his second term.

In an open letter to US Catholic bishops sent on Tuesday, the Argentine pope criticized Mr. Trump’s mass deportation program, saying that those who entered the United States should not be treated illegally as criminals and that the entire plan cannot be supported because it violates human dignity.

Asked by Fox News journalist to comment on the pope’s “sharp words”, Homan replied: “I have sharp words for the pope: I say that as a lifelong Catholic. He should focus on his work and abandon the implementation of us.

Homan repeated that opinion to other journalists in the White House, saying, “I wish he would stick to the Catholic Church and repair it and leave us border implementation.”

In his letter to the bishops, Francis told the bishops that he had carefully followed the “main crisis” in the US, but that “with the right to form a conscience cannot bring critical judgment and express his disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identify the illegal status of some migrants with crime. “

Francis admitted that the nations had the right to defend themselves against the migrant who had committed crimes, but said it was not incompatible with policies for neat and legal migration.

Deporting people who have escaped extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious exacerbation of the environment in their home countries, no matter how they enter the United States, “damages the dignity of many men and women and whole families and placed them in a state of special vulnerability and helplessness, “Pope said.

“What is built on the basis of force, not the truth about the same dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly,” Francis warned.

Pope, 88, made the defense of migrants and refugees with his papacy’s priority because he was elected to run the Catholic Church in 2013. Still, it is rare that Pontiff thus directly criticized the internal political debate in the country.

The Pope also rejected the use of Catholic theology of Vice President JD Vance to justify the immigration action.

In the 29th of January at Fox News, Vance, which turned into Catholicism in 2019, he described what he said was “a very Christian concept: love your family and then love your neighbor and then love your community, and then Then you love your fellow citizens in your country.

When the critics replied that he misunderstood the gospel, Vance referred to social media to claim that the moral duties of a person toward their children surpass those, “a stranger who lives thousands of miles away.”

“Only Google” Ordo Amoris, “Vance wrote, referring to the medieval Catholic concept of the” Order of Love “or” The Order of Benefish “to God, himself and our neighbors.

Although Vance is not mentioned directly, Pope Francis directly opposed the interpretation of the vice president of Christian love in his Tuesday.

“Christian love is not a concentric spread of interest that extends little by little to other persons and groups,” he wrote. “A real Ordo Amoris that must be promoted is what we reveal to constantly meditate on the parable of the ‘good Samaritan’, that is, meditating about the love that builds the Brotherhood open to everyone, without exception.”

Francis also called on Catholics and others to “do not surrender to narratives that discriminate and cause unnecessary suffering to our brothers and sisters and refugee sisters.”

He said that all laws and policies of nations should be made and considered: “In the light of the dignity of the person and his fundamental rights, not the other way around.”

Pope and Mr. Trump have clashed in immigration in the past.

In February 2016, he asked Mr. Trump’s vow to build a border wall between the US -a Mexico, Francis said: “The walls for the construction of bridges are not Christian.”

In January Francis Called Mr. Trump’s plan Carry out massive deportations of unfathomable migrants “shame”.

“It will be a shame,” he said in an interview with the Italian talk show, “because it does poor misery that have nothing to pay for … this will not do this! You do not solve things this way.”