Pope Leo XIV is being lobbied by Catholic bishops and nuns to endorse more migration flows, regardless of the vast civic and economic damage inflicted on citizens, Western societies, and the migrants’ home countries.
So far, the Pope is responding with generalities without detailed policy implications or direct opposition to Trump’s popular deportation of illegal migrants,
“In the communities of ancient Christian tradition, such as those of the West, the presence of many brothers and sisters from the world’s South should be welcomed as an opportunity, through an exchange that renews the face of the Church,” the Pope declared on October 5.
“Often [migrants] maintain their strength while seeking a better future, in spite of the obstacles that they encounter,” Leo said Oct. 2 in a meeting with Catholic migration advocates.
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“Pope Leo will ‘stand with’ Catholic leaders in protecting immigrants’ rights, advocates say,” declared an October 8 report by Politico, which added;
A delegation including El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz and members of the Hope Border Institute, an advocacy group partnered with the El Paso archdiocese, presented the pope with hundreds of letters and a four-minute video from immigrants detailing their experiences as the Trump administration’s deportation campaign continues to expel thousands from the U.S.
“He watched the whole thing, and his eyes at the end were filled with tears as he watched it,” Dylan Corbett, the founding executive director of the group, who was present at the meeting, told POLITICO. “As the meeting came to an end he said, ‘You stand with me and I stand with you, and the church will continue to accompany and stand with migrants.’”
“Corbett said he and other members of the delegation look forward to seeing the pope continue to “demonstrate that solidarity” but are now focusing on taking the pope’s message back to the U.S. and supporting immigrants on the ground, Politico reported.
Leo thanked “us for our commitment to the immigrant peoples and also saying that he hopes that the bishops’ conference will speak to this issue,” Bishop Mark Seitz, based in El Paso, Texas, and one of the most aggressive advocates for migrants, told the Associated Press.
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