Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

Pope Leo: Treating Migrants Like Garbage Is a “Serious Crime”

After weeks of denouncing Trump’s raids, Pope Leo says mistreating migrants is “a grave crime against humanity.”

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Christopher Hale
Oct 23, 2025
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Pope Leo XIV meeting with participants at the Fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements

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At a Vatican gathering of grassroots social movements today, Pope Leo XIV delivered another scathing moral indictment of the Trumpian approach to immigration.

He acknowledged th…

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