Pope Francis has said it would be a “disgrace” for incoming US president Donald Trump to make good on promises to expel undocumented immigrants.
“We have not spoken , but if it is true, it will be a disgrace, because he will make these poor unfortunates, who have nothing, pay the bill of disorder," the Pope told Italian TV host Fabio Fazio during a conversation on Fazio’s Che Tempo Che Fa program on 19 January.
“This won’t do,” Francis said, “this is not the way to resolve the matter.”
Trump also addressed the immigration issue at the weekend when he spoke to NBC News ahead of his inauguration today. Trump said his administration will begin mass deportations “very early” in his new term as the 47th US president, but did not say where or precisely when they would begin.
