Exclusive: Trump’s immigrant deportations are ‘morally repugnant,’ senior US Catholic leader says
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Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Archbishop of Washington, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, describing the rounding up and deportation of immigrants as “inhumane” and “morally repugnant.”
A prominent Catholic Church leader and ally of Pope Leo XIV has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, describing the rounding up and deportation of immigrants as “inhumane” and “morally repugnant.” In a wide-ranging interview with CNN, Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Archbishop of Washington, DC, also voiced strong opposition to Trump’s major tax and spending bill, warned of the risks of US and Israeli strikes on Iran, and discussed his view of the role of women in the church. “It’s right to be able to control our borders. However, what’s going on now is something far beyond that,” the cardinal told CNN on Tuesday. “It is a mass, indiscriminate deportation of men and women and children and families which literally rips families apart and is intended to do so.” McElroy was appointed to lead the archdiocese in the US capital by Pope Francis in January, the month of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. He was among the more than 100 cardinals who took part in the conclave that elected the first American pope in May. McElroy, who spoke to CNN in Rome on the same day that Trump visited a migrant detention center in Florida known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” said the “mechanism” being used was the “creation of fear” among 10 million undocumented people in the US – “the great majority” of whom had worked hard and contributed to society. “This is simply not only incompatible with Catholic teaching, it’s inhumane and is morally repugnant,” he added.
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