JD Vance to Pope Leo XIV: I Hope You’ve Learned From Trump on Immigration
The vice president told Laura Ingraham the Holy See’s views on immigration are “troubling” — two days after ICE detained a nun walking to Mass in Texas. His office still hasn’t answered my questions.
JD Vance appeared on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle Tuesday night and told Laura Ingraham that the Vatican’s views on immigration are “troubling.”
“I do think that some of the things that have come out of the Vatican on the immigration question in particular have been troubling, and ultimately I disagree with it,” the vice president said.
He also had advice for the Church’s leadership. “What I would hope that the Catholic leadership has learned from some of the things that me and Marco and the president have said about immigration is, it’s not just about the dignity of the immigrant,” Vance said, referring to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “It’s also about the dignity of the native-born factory worker who has their wages destroyed.”
A Catholic vice president hopes the pope has learned something about migrants from Donald Trump. Read that sentence again.
The appearance was a stop on the promotional tour for Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, the spiritual memoir Vance published on June 16.
The same tour brought him to Michael Knowles’ podcast, released earlier that day, where he called yard signs reading “no person is illegal” a “disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed.”
An earlier stop on the tour featured him calling Democrats “terrible people.”
The vice president has now spent a year and a half telling the Catholic Church what it should believe about the stranger. The record deserves to be laid out in full.
