Pope Francis Condemns President Trump's Deportation Plan, Calling It a 'Major Crisis'

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Pope rebukes Trump administration over migrant deportations, warns 'it will end badly'

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.”

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Pope Francis rejects mass deportations, urges bishops to 'work closely with migrants'

Although arrests and removals were daily occurrences during the Biden administration, President Trump has made immigration enforcement a key theme of his presidency.

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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.”

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Pope Francis tells US bishops Trump's immigration policy 'will end badly'
Pope Francis tells U.S. bishops Trump's immigration policy 'will end badly' The pope has long been critical of the president's immigration policies. In 2016, during Trump's first White House campaign, the pope said he was "not Christian" in his views on immigration.
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Pope Francis predicts Trump's immigration policies will 'end badly'
Pope Francis predicts that President Donald Trump's immigration policies will "end badly" He said that a nation has the right to defend itself, but that mass deportations aren't a good idea. "What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly," he said.
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The pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology
Pope Francis wrote a letter to the U.S. Catholic bishops. He said it's important for Catholics to disagree with any measure that identifies some migrants with criminality. He also wrote that people should meditate on love that builds a fraternity open to all. The pope is the second high-ranking Catholic to criticize Vice President Vance's remarks.
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Pope Francis warns Trump’s mass deportation efforts ‘will end badly’
Pope Francis says the U.S. should not deport migrants based on their legal status. He says it damages the dignity of many people and places them in "a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness" The pope does not name President Donald Trump in his letter to bishops.
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Pope condemns Trump's mass deportations in letter to US bishops
The head of around 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide described the crackdown on irregular immigration as a "major crisis" A nation's right to protect its population from those who have become criminals must be recognized, the pope wrote. The deportation of people who have left their countries of origin violates their dignity, he said.
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Pope Francis responds to Trump's mass deportation policy
Pope Francis wrote a letter to U.S. bishops criticizing President Donald Trump's immigration policy. He urged people not to give into "narratives that discriminate" The "true common good is prompted" when people welcome and protect the "most fragile, unprotected and vulnerable," he said.
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The Red Pope Predicts Trump's Deportations Will "End Badly"
Pope Francis, son and grandson of communists, ramped up criticism of Trump’s deportations. He claims that criminalizing migrants “will end badly.” He appears to also speak to Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic. Francis wants us to accept everyone in the world equally.
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Pope Francis calls US mass deportations a ‘major crisis’
Pope Francis says a “rightly formed conscience’ has to express disagreement with connecting the status of those living in the country illegally to criminality. “I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of mass deportations,” Pope Francis says.
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Pope Francis Pens Emotional Warning Against Trump's Mass Deportation Orders: 'What Is Built on the Basis of Force' Will 'End Badly'
"What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly," the Pope wrote. Pope Francis called upon "all the Christian faithful and people of good will" to put peoples' dignity and fundamental rights ahead of public policies that threaten them.
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