Border Emperor Tom Homan, who oversees President Trump's massive deportation program, was shot by Pope Francis after chastising the administration's approach to immigration enforcement.
“I have harsh words to the Pope,” Homan told White House reporters Tuesday. “The Pope should amend the Catholic Church.”
“I say this is a Catholic for life. I was baptized by Catholics. My first communion as a Catholic, confirmation as a Catholic. He revised the Catholic Church and his “We should focus on our work and leave border enforcement,” he continued.
Homan pointed out that the Vatican, where the Pope lives, is surrounded by walls.
“Do you want to secure our borders and attack us? He has a wall around the Vatican, right? So he has a wall to protect his people and himself. But we can't have a wall around the US,” Homan said.
“I hope he will stick to the Catholic Church, fix it and leave border enforcement to us,” he added.
Homan's remarks respond to a letter written by the Pope on Monday, criticizing the massive deportation from the United States and calling for the dignified treatment of immigrants.
In his letter, the Pope acknowledged the “right to protect the country and keep the community safe from people who committed violent or serious crimes before or before they arrived,” but he was in the Trump administration. condemned the approach that he has. I took it.
“In many cases, deporting people who have left their land due to extreme poverty, anxiety, exploitation, persecution or severe deterioration of the environment has led to the dignity of many men and women, as well as all families. In a state of vulnerability and vulnerability that places them in,” Francis wrote in the letter.
Treating people with dignity, the Pope said “it will not hinder the development of policies that regulate orderly legal migration.”
“But this development cannot occur through the privileges of some people and the victimization of others,” continued Francis. “What is built on power rather than truth about equal dignity for all humans will begin and end badly.”
The Trump administration prioritizes massive deportation, a long-standing promise from the campaign trail.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Lewitt said last week that more than 8,000 people have been arrested in immigration enforcement measures since Trump took office on January 20th, the Associated Press reported. Some immigrants have been deported, while others have been detained at federal prisons and at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
