Immigration laws should not be made stricter but rather looser, to allow more immigrants to cross international borders, Pope Francis said Wednesday.
“Rather than more restrictive laws and the militarization of borders, what is needed is an expansion of secure and regular means of access,” the pontiff told those present for his weekly General Audience, “and a global governance of migrations based on justice, fraternity and solidarity.”
“It must be said clearly: there are those who work systematically and by any means to turn away migrants – to turn away migrants,” the pope stated. “And this, when done with conscience and responsibility, is a grave sin.”
God “shares the drama of migrants, God is with them, with migrants, he suffers with them, with migrants, he weeps and hopes with them, with migrants,” he insisted, adding that the Lord is with our migrants, “not with those who turn them away.”
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In his audience, Francis also praised the work of NGOs and others who like Good Samaritans “do their utmost to help and save the wounded and abandoned migrants on the routes of desperate hope.”
“These courageous men and women are a sign of a humanity that does not allow itself to be infected by the bad culture of indifference and waste,” he said; “what kills migrants is our indifference and that attitude of discarding.”
“And I ask you: do you pray for migrants, for these who come to our lands to save their lives? And ‘you’ want to chase them away,” he scolded.
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