Miami Archbishop’s Message to Trump: ‘Migrants are not a Problem’

As President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans ramp up, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski says the president is taking the wrong approach.

“ Migrants are not a problem,” Wenski said in a Zoom interview. “Our broken immigration laws are a problem, but the migrants are not a problem. These people represent an opportunity.”

Wenski, 74, a South Florida native and son of Polish immigrants, oversees the pastoral care of over 1 million Catholics, according to the Archdiocese of Miami. Wenski was appointed archbishop in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI.

Wenski cited the harm to the economy that could come from mass deportations – something the Catholic leader noted would run contrary to the president’s campaign promises.

“ President Trump has promised us the best economy ever,” Wenski said in the interview last week with Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. “And you’re not going to have the best economy ever without making an accommodation for migration. Because this nation, our economy, needs the immigrants. They need it for agriculture, for the service industry. They need it across the board.”

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