Tom Homan Fires Back at Pope Francis for Calling Mass Deportations a ‘Disgrace’

[mourningdove~]

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan fired back at Pope Francis on Friday for calling the new administration’s mass deportation program a “disgrace,” charging the pontiff to focus on problems within the Catholic Church instead.

The night before Monday’s inauguration, Pope Francis suggested Trump’s mass deportation operation will be inhumane for illegal immigrants and disgraceful “because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing pay the bill.”

Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2017 to 2018, lambasted the pope for criticizing U.S. immigration policy.

The pope “ought to stick to the Catholic Church and fix that. That’s a mess,” Homan told Newsmax personality Rob Schmitt.

The Catholic Church has faced numerous problems in recent years, including its poor handling of the sexual abuse of children committed by clergy.

Trump made mass deportations a signature issue during his 2024 campaign, promising to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history. The Trump administration is expected to deport about 1.4 million immigrants who have committed crimes or are otherwise staying in the U.S. illegally.

Nearly 600 aliens have been arrested by ICE agents as of Friday, and mass deportation flights to Mexico and Guatemala have already begun.

The head of the Catholic Church has repeatedly called for compassionate and humane immigration policies, calling on nations to accept immigrants within their means and to take down their barriers. Francis himself grew up in a family of Italian immigrants in Argentina.

The pope previously blasted Trump’s hardline stance on illegal immigration, particularly over the Republican’s 2016 campaign promise to build the border wall. Francis said anyone who builds a wall to shut out immigrants was “not Christian,” pointedly referring to Trump.

Homan, who described himself as a “lifelong Catholic” in the interview, pointed out the pope’s hypocrisy for criticizing the border wall when the religious leader has a 39-foot-high wall that encircles the Vatican.

“They have a wall around the Vatican. And if you illegally enter the Vatican, the crime is serious. You’ll be charged with a serious crime and be jailed,” Homan said Friday evening. “So he can protect the Vatican where he lives. He can build a wall where he lives, but the American people are not allowed that.”

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[Hazelelponi]

calling on nations to accept immigrants within their means

Yes and he's someone who doesn't live here and doesn't have a clue what Americans deal with.

Our country borders economic collapse and is currently in managed decline and he's upset we are kicking people out of the country who broke our laws.

We are a nation that is naked, pitiful, and blind - blind to her own peoples desperation and need and pitiful for the hate she spews on her citizens and naked because she can't even afford clothes.

it's people who claim the name of Christ who need sight. I'm tired of watching Christians spit on my neighbors as they go hungry and try and blame Christ for it....

 

[Yarddog]

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan fired back at Pope Francis on Friday for calling the new administration’s mass deportation program a “disgrace,” charging the pontiff to focus on problems within the Catholic Church instead.

The night before Monday’s inauguration, Pope Francis suggested Trump’s mass deportation operation will be inhumane for illegal immigrants and disgraceful “because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing pay the bill.”

Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2017 to 2018, lambasted the pope for criticizing U.S. immigration policy.

The pope “ought to stick to the Catholic Church and fix that. That’s a mess,” Homan told Newsmax personality Rob Schmitt.

The Catholic Church has faced numerous problems in recent years, including its poor handling of the sexual abuse of children committed by clergy.

Trump made mass deportations a signature issue during his 2024 campaign, promising to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history. The Trump administration is expected to deport about 1.4 million immigrants who have committed crimes or are otherwise staying in the U.S. illegally.

Nearly 600 aliens have been arrested by ICE agents as of Friday, and mass deportation flights to Mexico and Guatemala have already begun.

The head of the Catholic Church has repeatedly called for compassionate and humane immigration policies, calling on nations to accept immigrants within their means and to take down their barriers. Francis himself grew up in a family of Italian immigrants in Argentina.

The pope previously blasted Trump’s hardline stance on illegal immigration, particularly over the Republican’s 2016 campaign promise to build the border wall. Francis said anyone who builds a wall to shut out immigrants was “not Christian,” pointedly referring to Trump.

Homan, who described himself as a “lifelong Catholic” in the interview, pointed out the pope’s hypocrisy for criticizing the border wall when the religious leader has a 39-foot-high wall that encircles the Vatican.

“They have a wall around the Vatican. And if you illegally enter the Vatican, the crime is serious. You’ll be charged with a serious crime and be jailed,” Homan said Friday evening. “So he can protect the Vatican where he lives. He can build a wall where he lives, but the American people are not allowed that.”

MSN

Homan is a cafeteria Catholic.

 

[Fantine]

President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan fired back at Pope Francis on Friday for calling the new administration’s mass deportation program a “disgrace,” charging the pontiff to focus on problems within the Catholic Church instead.

The night before Monday’s inauguration, Pope Francis suggested Trump’s mass deportation operation will be inhumane for illegal immigrants and disgraceful “because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing pay the bill.”

Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2017 to 2018, lambasted the pope for criticizing U.S. immigration policy.

The pope “ought to stick to the Catholic Church and fix that. That’s a mess,” Homan told Newsmax personality Rob Schmitt.

The Catholic Church has faced numerous problems in recent years, including its poor handling of the sexual abuse of children committed by clergy.

Trump made mass deportations a signature issue during his 2024 campaign, promising to carry out the largest deportation operation in American history. The Trump administration is expected to deport about 1.4 million immigrants who have committed crimes or are otherwise staying in the U.S. illegally.

Nearly 600 aliens have been arrested by ICE agents as of Friday, and mass deportation flights to Mexico and Guatemala have already begun.

The head of the Catholic Church has repeatedly called for compassionate and humane immigration policies, calling on nations to accept immigrants within their means and to take down their barriers. Francis himself grew up in a family of Italian immigrants in Argentina.

The pope previously blasted Trump’s hardline stance on illegal immigration, particularly over the Republican’s 2016 campaign promise to build the border wall. Francis said anyone who builds a wall to shut out immigrants was “not Christian,” pointedly referring to Trump.

Homan, who described himself as a “lifelong Catholic” in the interview, pointed out the pope’s hypocrisy for criticizing the border wall when the religious leader has a 39-foot-high wall that encircles the Vatican.

“They have a wall around the Vatican. And if you illegally enter the Vatican, the crime is serious. You’ll be charged with a serious crime and be jailed,” Homan said Friday evening. “So he can protect the Vatican where he lives. He can build a wall where he lives, but the American people are not allowed that.”

MSN

It is hypocritical to praise bishops who deny Communion to pro-choice leaders while lambasting the compassionate, principled, seamlessly life-affirming leadership of Pope Francis, the most saintly Pope in my long lifetime (I don't remember John XXIII that well but admire him as well.)

 

[Hazelelponi]

We have many Christian denominations and we have differing ways in the particulars about what Scripture means when it says this or that.

Likewise, when it comes to government we have a variety of ideas on how tackle a variety of issues we face locally and nationally.

I don't believe the person who, for instance, feels that meeting literally every physical need of another nations citizens at a level our own citizens are not anywhere afforded in this country while our own citizens are left in the mountains without homes, heat, electricity or running water and no one but their neighbor to help them because the government and the far left won't help white Christians, is NOT some kind of model of Christian led government, is a bad Christian.

They simply have a more biblical approach to solving problems in society than stepping over the dead bodies of our own people to virtue signal and pat themselves on the back about what great Christians they are, after spitting on their fellow Christians graves.

God bless

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It is hypocritical to praise bishops who deny Communion to pro-choice leaders while lambasting the compassionate, principled, seamlessly life-affirming leadership of Pope Francis, the most saintly Pope in my long lifetime (I don't remember John XXIII that well but admire him as well.)

This is not life affirming. And I'll argue with the Pope himself over it. This country hates it's own people and he demands we continue to preference foreigners. There's no blood left in the turnip. We have given our future, all our children's future, all our grandchildren nearly had, and probably all our great children's future too. Enough is enough. God does not require this.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Homan is a cafeteria Catholic.

Evidence?

 

[Yarddog]

Evidence?

Does he show compassion to immigrants?

 

[chevyontheriver]

Does he show compassion to immigrants?

Does he?

 

[Yarddog]

Does he?

It doesn't look like it. It is the Pope's place to speak out against sin. Homan doesn't like it.
Typical conservative response

 

[Michie]

The Vatican needs to open its borders then. Lead by example.

 

[Michie]

The pope “ought to stick to the Catholic Church and fix that. That’s a mess,” Homan told Newsmax personality Rob Schmitt.

Tom Homan Fires Back at Pope Francis for Calling Mass Deportations a ‘Disgrace’ | National Review

‘He ought to stick to the Catholic Church and fix that. That’s a mess,’ Homan said in response to the pope’s recent criticism.

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[Fantine]

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This is not life affirming. And I'll argue with the Pope himself over it. This country hates it's own people and he demands we continue to preference foreigners. There's no blood left in the turnip. We have given our future, all our children's future, all our grandchildren nearly had, and probably all our great children's future too. Enough is enough. God does not require this.

I'm sorry, but you have heard twisted truths. Without a green card an immigrant can't even get food from a pantry that gets federal commodities. No healthcare. Housing assistance.
They are the hardest working people I know. They put two roofs on my house (hail 15 years apart.) Cleaned my house. Worked with me in church committees. The guy I wish my daughter had married was first generation American. I still love him.
And living where I do I know lots of white rural people who get assistance, and I would never begrudge their assistance.
Do you believe in higher minimum wages? Unions? Earned income tax credits?
Why not?

 

[chevyontheriver]

It doesn't look like it.

Again, asking for evidence Homan is a cafeteria Catholic.

 

[mourningdove~]

Yes and he's someone who doesn't live here and doesn't have a clue what Americans deal with.

'No clue' ...
or just really doesn't like America and wants to see her fall?

 

[mourningdove~]

Again, asking for evidence Homan is a cafeteria Catholic.

If there is no evidence, then isn't that the sin of slander ... or is it calumny?

 

[Hazelelponi]

'No clue' ...
or just really doesn't like America and wants to see her fall?

only God really knows.

We just know the fruit of all that liberation theology nonsense and call it bad fruit from a rotten tree. They destroyed every country in Latin America and now they are here for us.

They just forgot we are Americans, the sons and daughters of first the Reformation, and second the Revolution (whether by blood or by Spirit of adoption). He's not dealing with pushovers either theologically or politically.

 

[Fantine]

If you follow the Vatican you will find he invites huge crowds of the homeless to the Vatican at Christmas or Easter for a feast. I think they may stay overnight.
One Holy Thursday he visited a women's prison and washed the feet of Muslim women. When he was well he rode the bus to the boarding house where he lived.
When he was the head of the Jesuit order, he was complicit with brutal dictators in Argentina, somewhat like Milei, I imagine. He thought he needed to court the enemy to protect the Church.
After the revolution, he was in isolation for a number of years. He learned that the Church does not court the Mileis, Erdagons, Netanyahus, Trumps and Musks of the world. The Church preaches the truth boldly--as Bishop Budde did. The Church stands in solidarity with the poor, displaced, refugees, hated, and sorrowful.
In his years of seclusion, he became the luminous prophetic voice who leads the Church today.
He's afflicting the comfortable--as he should.

 

[Michie]

Bishop Budde is a joke.

 

[Fantine]

She is Episcopal.
Some people call the Episcopal Church Catholicism lite (and they are former Catholics. ) In this case, Bishop Budde could be called Catholicism enlite-ened.
God bless Pope Francis

 

[Michie]

She is Episcopal.
Some people call the Episcopal Church Catholicism lite (and they are former Catholics. ) In this case, Bishop Budde could be called Catholicism enlite-ened.
God bless Pope Francis

Catholicism enlightened. Hilarious.