Pope Francis again has lashed out against President Trump’s policy of guarding our borders and deporting those who enter the U.S. illegally. On February 10, he sent a letter to the U.S bishops on immigration in an apparent attempt to politicize them and turn them against Trump. Never once does he acknowledge the illegal status of the hordes of people forcibly migrating northward from Mexico into the U.S.
“The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.”
What the pope is saying is that anyone who violates immigration law is not a criminal. Yet, it’s an absolute fact that “some migrants” (and in fact many) are known criminals. Journalist Phil Lawler comments on this.
“That claim is not only illogical but hypocritical, since less than a month ago the Vatican—of which Pope Francis is the supreme legislator—raised the criminal penalties for anyone who enters the city-state illegally, allowing for four-year prison terms and fines of about $25,000.”
So, Francis can jail illegals but we have to welcome them? Francis erroneously states that those migrating from the south are doing so out of ‘need and suffering’ and he inappropriately compares the drug cartels leaving Mexico to the exile of the of the Holy Family of Nazareth from the cruelty of King Herod.
“The family of Nazareth in exile, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, emigrants in Egypt and refugees there to escape the wrath of an ungodly king, are the model, the example and the consolation of emigrants and pilgrims of every age and country.”
What Francis somehow is forgetting is that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph didn’t have weapons on their caravan, nor did they break the law.
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