WATCH: Catholic Tom Homan gets tough on pope, says American pontiff should focus on Church’s ‘own issues’
U.S. border czar Tom Homan delivered what bordered on a scolding to American Pope Leo after the Catholic leader criticized the U.S. for its deportation practices and policies under President Donald Trump.
“The Catholic faith is always in support of law enforcement, always has been, and he should be, too. … You ought to be fixing the Catholic Church because they got their own issues,” Homan explained.
“Bottom line is, if we jumped the wall at the Vatican, the penalties for doing that are much harder than the ones here in the United States.”
The Washington Examiner said Homan’s comments were after President Donald Trump listed his administration’s immigration enforcement policies.
Meeting with reporters, Homan responded to the pope’s claims that condemned mass deportations – even though millions and millions of illegal aliens were allowed into the nation under Joe Biden’s administration, creating havoc in government budgets, in schools, in communities, in housing and much more.
And the Catholic leader said Trump is doing the deportations in a “disrespectful” way.
Homan noted that the Vatican City itself is a walled state.
Tom Homan is a man a few words, but when he speaks you should listen!
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Trump, during his State of the Union this week, explained the U.S. now has the “strongest and most secure border in American history by far.”
His first year has seen the deportation of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, including many criminals, despite widespread activism against his agenda on the part\y of leftists and members of the federal judiciary.
Homan, badgered before by those who want Trump to abandon his border security agenda, has told religious leaders to stick to the roles their own institutions have and leave border enforcement to the government, as the Constitution provides.
“Women get raped making that journey, or 4,000 aliens died making that journey under Joe Biden,” Homan said. “When you overwhelm the border patrol, all the bad things happen. … Securing the border saves lives.”