Pope Francis Blasts Trump’s “Immoral” Migrant Policy

The Washington Post reports:

Pope Francis stepped into a growing controversy over President Trump’s immigration policies, criticizing the separation of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexican border and saying that “populism” and “creating psychosis” are not the way to resolve migration problems, according to an interview published Wednesday.

Speaking to Reuters news agency, the pope said, “It’s not easy, but populism is not the solution.” He strongly backed U.S. Catholic bishops, who have described as “immoral” the Trump administration’s policy of discouraging illegal immigration by separating children from their parents at the border.

Last week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops denounced the Trump administration’s “immoral” separation of families and called the crackdown on migrants a “right-to-life” issue. One bishop attending the biannual meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., reportedly suggested “canonical penalties” for Catholics involved in implementing the Trump policies.