Pope Francis sharply rebuked the Trump administration's mass deportation policy in an open letter sent to U.S. Catholic bishops Monday, warning that the forceful removal of immigrants affronted the "infinite and transcendent dignity" accorded to all human beings and would "end badly."
"I exhort all the faithful of the Catholic Church ... not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters," he wrote, invoking the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and the exile of Jesus, Mary and Joseph as "the example and the consolation of emigrants and pilgrims of every age and country, of all refugees of every condition."
