Juárez Diocese: Compassion for immigrants
As President Donald Trump prepares to roll out executive actions on immigration, including jump starting the border wall and and clamping down on sanctuary cities, officials with the Juárez Catholic diocese said they ask that immigrants be met with a "humanitarian spirit."
Rev. Hesiquio Trevizo said the Juárez diocese stands with what Pope Francis said over the weekend to the Spanish paper El País.
Francis said he would wait to form an opinion on Trump, as he doesn't like "judging people early. We'll see what Trump does."
Regarding immigration, Trevizo said the diocese will continue to have a humanitarian spirit toward what he called the global phenomenon of human mobility because of poverty, war and violence.
“We need, among countries, bridges not only physical but of understanding. We need to comprehend this phenomenon to resolve a problem that affects us all," he said.
“We understand each countries’ rights to defended and protect their borders and control their immigration. But immigration is a complex issue that requires global and joined actions," he added.
“We need not to lose our human dimension of who immigrate, and I am not talking about criminals because they need another type of help, but those people who migrate because of poverty or violence.”
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