{"id":50646,"date":"2025-10-08T20:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pope-leo-urges-u-s-bishops-to-speak-about-trumps-immigration-crackdown-after-being-shown-migrants-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:44:05","slug":"pope-leo-urges-u-s-bishops-to-speak-about-trumps-immigration-crackdown-after-being-shown-migrants-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pope-leo-urges-u-s-bishops-to-speak-about-trumps-immigration-crackdown-after-being-shown-migrants-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo urges U.S. bishops to speak about Trump&#8217;s immigration crackdown after being shown migrants&#8217; letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Texas bishop on the front lines of the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/illegal-crossings-immigration-us-mexico-southern-border-lowest-level-1970-trump-dhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">U.S. immigration crackdown<\/a><\/span> met Wednesday with <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/chicagos-viral-conclave-kids-meet-pope-leo-xiv-in-rome\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/span>, bringing him a packet of letters from immigrant families &#8220;terrorized&#8221; by fear that they and their loved ones will be rounded up and deported as the Trump administration&#8217;s tactics <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chicago-immigration-federal-arrests-helicopter-trump-ice-8dbf688f78f3b6d1b8fdb989557b28c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">grow increasingly combative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz also showed Leo a video detailing the plight of migrants, and told The Associated Press afterward that Leo vowed to &#8220;stand with&#8221; them and the Catholic leaders who are trying to help them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He had a few words for us, thanking us for our commitment to the immigrant peoples and also saying that he hopes that the bishops&#8217; conference will speak to this issue,&#8221; said Seitz, chair of the migration committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.<\/p>\n<p>Leo, who was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/new-pope-robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">born in Chicago<\/a><\/span> and is also a citizen of Peru, hasn&#8217;t spoken much about U.S. politics since being <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/papal-conclave-2025-new-pope-chosen\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">named the leader of the Catholic Church<\/a><\/span>, but <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pope-leo-abortion-pro-life-death-penalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">recently pointed out<\/a><\/span> what he sees as contradictions in debates around abortion, the death penalty and immigration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someone who says &#8216;I&#8217;m against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty&#8217; is not really pro-life,&#8221; he said earlier this month. &#8220;Someone who says that &#8216;I&#8217;m against abortion, but I&#8217;m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States,&#8217; I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s pro-life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Catholic leaders in the U.S. have <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-raids-catholic-bishops-church-trump-d3f8edcaa771180d630196e49d4841a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">denounced the Trump administration&#8217;s crackdown<\/a>, which has split up families, incited fears and upended life in American churches and schools that serve migrant communities. The administration has defended the crackdown as safeguarding public safety and national security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to get into the political fray, we&#8217;re not politicians, but we need to teach the faith,&#8221; and especially the Gospel message recognizing the inherent dignity of all God&#8217;s children, and to care for the poor and welcome the stranger, Seitz said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re terrorized. And it is a fear that has a long-term impact on people, on their lives,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The letters and video Seitz brought to Leo detail the fear that even legal migrants are facing every day. U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters by federal agents. In Leo&#8217;s hometown of Chicago, immigration agents have <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chicago-immigration-federal-arrests-helicopter-trump-ice-8dbf688f78f3b6d1b8fdb989557b28c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stormed apartment complexes by helicopter<\/a> as families slept, deployed chemical agents near a public school and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ice-immigration-chicago-trump-protesters-facility-5520f1cfbc93318d39e744c421155dae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">put handcuffs on a city official at a hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They can&#8217;t go out. They are afraid to shop, to go to church and so they stay home,&#8221; wrote Maria in one of the letters delivered to Leo. Originally from Guatemala, she has lived in San Francisco for a quarter-century and qualified for asylum years ago, but has relatives in the U.S. who are not legal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pope needs to talk to Trump and ask Trump to think about what he&#8217;s doing to immigrants,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;The pope needs to plead with Trump and Trump needs to listen to him. Trump has to change what he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just before he died, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pope-francis-trump-tom-homan-immigration-deportations\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Pope Francis<\/a><\/span> strongly rebuked the Trump administration&#8217;s plans for mass deportations, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity.<\/p>\n<p>History&#8217;s first U.S. pope has followed in Francis&#8217; line. Last weekend, Leo celebrated a special Holy Year Mass for migrants, denouncing the &#8220;coldness of indifference&#8221; and the &#8220;stigma of discrimination&#8221; that migrants desperate to flee violence and suffering often face. Asked by reporters this week about the crackdown in Chicago, Leo declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to becoming pope, Leo, or then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pope-leo-xiv-social-media-account-trump-vance-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">often shared posts on social media<\/a><\/span> that were critical of the Trump administration&#8217;s stances on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Leo was running late for the audience with Seitz and the delegation of around a dozen people, including members of the Hope Border Institute, an advocacy group formed in partnership with the El Paso diocese. The delegation members assured Leo that they would stand with him as they chatted in a Vatican reception room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Later on in the meeting he said, &#8216;I will stand with you,&#8217; so it was a beautiful little exchange,&#8221; said Seitz.<\/p>\n<p>There are rumors in the Vatican that the pope may be considering a trip to the United States as early as next year, when the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. 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