Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics

Pope Leo's Ally Cardinal McElroy Condemns Trump’s ‘Assault’ on Immigrants — and the Church

Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., has emerged as a leading Catholic voice opposing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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Christopher Hale
Sep 29, 2025
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At yesterday’s Mass marking the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Cardinal McElroy delivered a searing rebuke of the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants.

He decried the federal mass deportation policy as a “governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women.”

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