Biden-Harris border policies violate Catholic social teaching, report claims

Vice President Kamala Harris looks on as U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about border security policies in the Roosevelt Room in the White House on January 5, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Biden is planning to visit the U.S.-Mexico border while on a two-day summit meeting in Mexico City. The administration plans on setting new limits on illegal border crossings and expanding policies that force out migrants without letting them seek asylum. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images


The Biden-Harris administration has embraced immigration policies that run afoul of Catholic social teaching, according to the findings of a religious advocacy group.

In its report titled “Bad Samaritans,” released in five separate installments last week, CatholicVote highlighted how human trafficking, failure to enforce immigration law, false asylum claims, and political corruption and other developments that have resulted from the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policies directly violate Catholic social teaching.

The first portion of the report looks at a philosophy embraced by Pope St. John Paul II, who led the Roman Catholic Church from 1978-2005. It includes quotes from the late pontiff’s book Memory and Identity, which defines “patriotism” as “a love for everything to do with our native land: its history, its traditions, its language, its natural features” that “extends also to the works of our compatriots and the fruits of their genius.”

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