Pope Leo condemns Trump’s immigration insurance policies as ‘extremely disrespectful’ | EUROtoday

Pope Leo XIV has as soon as once more condemned Donald Trump’s stringent anti-immigration insurance policies, describing the administration’s therapy of foreigners dwelling within the United States as “extremely disrespectful”.

Speaking from his residence in Castel Gandolfo, exterior Rome, the pontiff urged folks within the U.S. “to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have.”

The first U.S. pontiff, Leo has escalated his disapproval of the Trump administration’s method to immigrants in latest weeks. This follows his September remarks, the place he labelled their therapy “inhuman”, which provoked a big backlash from some conservative Catholic figures.

Leo was requested by a journalist on Tuesday a few November 13 assertion from the U.S. Catholic bishops’ convention, which rebuked the Trump administration’s polices and referred to as for “meaningful immigration reform.”

“It’s a very important statement,” the pope stated. “ I would just invite all people in the United States to listen to them.”

He stated particular person international locations have a proper to police their borders, however that many immigrants within the U.S. are “living good lives” they usually have been being handled “in a way that is extremely disrespectful, to say the least.”