Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants, warning that the program to forcefully deport people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity and “will end badly.”
Although arrests and removals were daily occurrences during the Biden administration, President Trump has made immigration enforcement a key theme of his presidency.
Francis wrote that deporting people “damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.”