The Vatican has criticized our border wall and our treatment of illegal immigrants as “inhumane.” Intercessor, what do you think?
From Breitbart. The Vatican newspaper has slammed the U.S. for its southern border fence with a frontpage article decrying “that inhuman wire.”
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The L’Osservatore Romano piece is accompanied by a large photo of a young woman and a child attempting to crawl through the midst of razor wire, presumably in an effort to enter the United States illegally.
“The suffering of the migrants who try to get through the barriers placed between Mexico and the United States,” reads the caption.
The Vatican, which has encouraged international migration and urged governments to welcome immigrants, has been a vocal critic of the border wall. …
Pope Francis has repeatedly railed against the building of walls. In his 2020 encyclical letter titled Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All), the pontiff referred to walls a striking 14 times, insisting that the Church wants “to build bridges, to break down walls, to sow seeds of reconciliation.” …
In Tuesday’s article, the Vatican paper says that the woman in the photo is one of the lucky ones, since she is alive rather than dead.
She is “one of many who each day try to cross Eagle Pass, leading from Mexico into Texas,” where just in this past July four people drowned, the paper declares. …
L’Osservatore Romano takes special issue with “Republican Governor Greg Abbott” for continuing to erect barriers along the border “without federal permission.”
Currently, the United States welcomes far more legal immigrants each year than any other nation in the world, with an annual average approaching a million people. …
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(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)