Pope Francis has sharply criticized the second Donald Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts and other policies cracking down on immigration, saying they are driving a “major crisis” that “damages the dignity of men and women”.
In the letter on Tuesday addressed to the US Roman Catholic church’s bishops, the pope pushed back against efforts to characterize all migrants as criminals – and urged people “not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters”.
