The first American Pope, who hails from Barack Obama’s city of Chicago, surprised no one when he condemned the Trump administration’s immigration policies, specifically its deportation program. Pope Leo XIV, who became the second-ever and second-consecutive Pope from the Americas following his predecessor Francis of Argentina, supported a recent statement from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
For context, the Trump administration has recorded approximately 500,000 deportations, with another 1.5 million voluntarily self-deporting. Though it was rarely reported then and gets buried now, former president Joe Biden annually removed over 1.5 million and Barack Obama was once labeled the “Deporter-in-Chief” for his aggressive removals. Deportations from America for being in the country illegally are nothing new, but the narrative persists because hating Trump is second to rational thinking and honesty.
Speaking from Baltimore where American Catholic leaders were holding a conference, the woke Pop defended and seconded a lengthy statement released by the USCCB during the same meeting. “I appreciate very much what the bishops have said. I think it’s a very important statement I would invite, especially all Catholics, but people of good will to listen carefully to what they said,” he said to reporters.
Then, completely misrepresenting the issue, the man born as Robert Francis Prevost angled his attacks on Trump – again silent on record-number deportations under Obama and Biden – to frame the issue as not nice enough. “I think we have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have if people are in the United States illegally.”
He then tried to hedge his comments, admitting that the United States, like all other countries, is allowed to have a defined border and immigration process. “No one has said that the United States should have open borders. I think every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter,” he conceded.
Naturally, though, he quickly transitioned back into the nebulous notion of prioritizing illegals over citizens. “But when people are living good lives, and many of them for 1015, 20 years, to treat them in a way that is extremely disrespectful, to say the least, and there’s been some violence. Unfortunately, I think, I think that the bishops have been very clear in what they said, and I think that I would just invite all people in the United States to listen to them.”
Watch the woke Pope condemn Trump below and essentially admit the United States and its citizens should just throw their hands up and accept being overrun by millions of immigrants:
As referenced, the statement put forth by the USCCB reads as new-age woke scripture, condemning deportations as un-Christian and mean (how else are illegals supposed to be removed?). “As pastors, we the bishops of the United States are bound to our people by ties of communion and compassion in Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement,” the statement reads in part.
“We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants. We are concerned about the conditions in detention centers and the lack of access to pastoral care. We lament that some immigrants in the United States have arbitrarily lost their legal status. We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools. We are grieved when we meet parents who fear being detained when taking their children to school and when we try to console family members who have already been separated from their loved ones.”
Then, the statement bastardizes Christian ethics and says America must welcome immigrants because it’s the nice thing to do, though no mention is made of the immigrants’ own responsibility or what is the right thing to do regarding a nation’s own citizens. “Catholic teaching exhorts nations to recognize the fundamental dignity of all persons, including immigrants. We bishops advocate for a meaningful reform of our nation’s immigration laws and procedures. Human dignity and national security are not in conflict. Both are possible if people of good will work together.”