White House on Wednesday defended the strict migration policy of US President Donald Trump, which Pope Leo XIV. He criticized this week for “inhumane” treatment of migrants in the United States. Informed AFP.
- The White House defended President Donald Trump’s migration policy.
- Pope Leo XIV. criticized the treatment of migrants in the US.
- The lion expressed a negative opinion on the death penalty in the US.
- Leavitt rejected the claims of inhumane treatment of migrants.
- The administration is trying to enforce laws in a humane way.
Lion on Tuesday during a meeting with journalists in the papal summer residence Castel Gandolfo said that A person who rejects abortion but agrees with the inhumane treatment of migrants in the US cannot be considered actually prolife. He added that there is also no prolife against abortion, but supports the death penalty that is still legal in many US states.
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, a Catholic, rejected this Pope’s criticism. “I reject the claim that this administration is being treated in inhumane treatment of illegal migrants in the United States,” She told reporters. She added that “significantly inhumane treatment” occurred during the work of the previous President Joe Biden, When the US border with Mexico exceeded a record number of people.
“This administration is trying to enforce the laws of our country as humanely as possible and at the same time follow them,” She added Leavitt. Even before his election Pope Leo – then Cardinal Robert Francis Prezost – On social networks he shared articles critical of Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who is also a Catholic.
