Border czar Tom Homan dismissed Pope Leo’s criticism of President Donald Trump’s deportation policies on Wednesday by comparing the fortified walls around the Vatican to the United States’s own border security efforts.
During a brief encounter with reporters, Homan was asked about Leo’s comments condemning mass deportations, including that the U.S. is doing them in a “disrespectful” way. Homan said Vatican City itself is a walled state and that the pontiff should focus on the Catholic Church’s “own issues.”
“The Catholic faith is always in support of law enforcement, always has been, and he should be, too. … You ought to be fixing the Catholic Church because they got their own issues,” Homan said. “Bottom line is, if we jumped the wall at the Vatican, the penalties for doing that are much harder than the ones here in the United States.”
Homan’s comments follow Trump touting his administration’s immigration enforcement record during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
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