Pope calls Trump’s ‘potential’ deportation plans a ‘disgrace’
It isn’t Trump’s plans that are a “disgrace.” According to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE):
In fiscal year (FY) 2023 ERO arrested 73,822 noncitizens with criminal histories; this group had 290,178 associated charges and convictions with an average of four per individual. These included 33,209 assaults; 4,390 sex and sexual assaults; 7,520 weapons offenses; 1,713 charges or convictions for homicide; and 1,655 kidnapping offenses.
These numbers include illegals. Pope Francis has consistently neglected to show any compassion for the multitudes of victims of abuse and other horrors. His sympathies are directed toward lawbreakers who tried to escape the queue. He continues to advocate immigration crime, and in so doing, facilitate the drug cartels, human traffickers and jihad terrorists that infiltrate the illegal migrant stream flowing into the U.S.
According to the House Committee on Homeland Security:
Over 370 individuals on the terrorist watchlist have been apprehended attempting to illegally cross our Southwest border between ports of entry since the beginning of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021—an increase of more than 2,000 percent compared to all of FY2017-2020
House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green stated that “there is literally no one President Biden won’t turn away.” And it wasn’t because of kindness. Of course, both Biden and the Pope would vet anyone coming into their own residences. They are both well protected by other people’s cash, yet they care nothing of the safety of those same hardworking people.
“Pope Francis Calls Potential U.S. Deportation Plans ‘a Disgrace,” by AC Wimmer, Catholic News Agency, January 19, 2025:
Pope Francis criticized potential plans for mass deportations in the United States under President-elect Donald Trump during a wide-ranging Italian television interview on Sunday.
“If this is true it is a disgrace because it makes the poor unfortunate who have nothing pay the price of imbalance. This is not how things are solved,” the pope said on Italian broadcaster Nove’s “Che tempo che fa” program on Jan. 19, speaking about plans to deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.
The U.S. bishops said in November they would speak out forcefully if President Trump does advance the proposal in a way that undermines human dignity.
There are an estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., according to July 2023 statistics from the Center for Migration Studies….