Trump’s administration is expected to carry out mass deportation operations in Chicago beginning Tuesday. Pope Francis has condemned President-elect Donald Trump’s calls for mass deportations in the U.S. The Catholic Church’s leader called Trump’s plans a “disgrace” in an interview on the Italian talk show Che Tempo Che Fa Sunday.
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“If it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing pay the unpaid bill,” he said. “It won’t do. This is not the way to solve things.”. Francis’s comments come as Trump is expected to begin gutting legal immigration paths and carrying out mass deportations within his first days in office.
Immigration experts and advocacy groups are expecting “executive orders, agency actions and requests to Congress for funding and immigration bills to enlarge its authority” and “intimidate all elected officials across the country into going along with his mass deportation agenda,” Naureen Shah, deputy director for government affairs at ACLU, told reporters last week.
This comes as Fox News and ABC News both report that Trump is set to sign more than 200 executive orders on Monday just hours after taking office. These orders will close the border to all undocumented migrants via proclamation, declare a national emergency at the border and designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, according to reports.
