US Bishops Denounce Trump’s Immigration Plans

The Catholic Church has clear teachings on immigration, but US bishops stand to lose lots of money from mass deportations.

As President-elect Donald Trump is just days away from returning to the White House, American Catholic leaders are denouncing his immigration agenda. Chicago’s powerful Cardinal Blase Cupich warned in a recent interview that U.S. bishops “are going to have to be prophetic and denounce any abuse of human dignity that may occur” as Trump rolls out his mass deportation program. “We are going to be vigilant and we are going to defend the human dignity of immigrants,” Cupich said. The cardinal called deportation plans “intolerable, especially in a country where we are all immigrants. I am a product of immigration!”

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Church and State collide: Pro-immigration cardinal to become DC archbishop

If you happen to find yourself in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican today, that vibration you feel beneath your feet is likely caused by St. John Paul II spinning in his sacred crypt. John Paul, born Karol Josef Wojtyla and pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, would undoubtedly be reacting negatively to the action of his successor, Pope Francis, who this week chose Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego to take over as archbishop of Washington, D.C.

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‘This town is dead’: Haitian migrants flee Ohio amid Trump deportation threat

A message circulating on a Haitian WhatsApp group in Springfield, Ohio, lists the best destinations for those fleeing the town in the wake of Donald Trump’s election win.

All of them are states run by Democrats who could provide sanctuary for Haitians worried about being deported following Mr Trump’s election victory: New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Vermont, Massachusetts and California.

It is believed that thousands have left for those states in the weeks after polling day. More of Ohio’s sizeable Haitian population is preparing to follow.

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Why ‘open-hearted’ Sweden brought in a wholesale crackdown on asylum

After the 2015 refugee crisis, years of liberal migration policies met the tough reality of gangs, riots and failed integration

Sweden is set to record its lowest number of asylum applications in a quarter of a century after a wholesale crackdown, its migration minister has told The Times.

For decades the Nordic state took a uniquely “open-hearted” approach to refugees, including Europe’s most liberal programme of state support for them to sustain their native languages and cultures. During the 2015 migration crisis Sweden took in nearly 163,000 asylum seekers, more in per capita terms than any other European Union member.

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Tren de Aragua gangbangers are attacking border crossings to force their way into US before Trump takes office

Knife-wielding Tren de Aragua gang members are mobbing border crossings at El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to break into the US — and have said they will attack border guards who try to stop them, according to a shocking Texas law enforcement memo leaked to The Post.

Last week, 20 of the Venezuelan gangbangers — armed with blades, tire irons and broken liquor bottles — tried to force their way into the US at a border gate, the missive from the Texas Department of Public Safety read.

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Immigration Moratorium Now

There is no MAGA without a restoration of immigration sanity.

For the past few days, certain highly visible elements of the MAGA coalition have been sparring with one another. Specifically, X users have been privy to an extensive immigration policy flame war between two competing MAGA coalition camps: the pro-immigration “tech bros,” on the one hand, and the nationalist-populist immigration restrictionists, on the other hand. The debate has focused, above all, on the thorny question of so-called high-skill immigration. A Politico headline summarized the dispute as “Elon Musk vs. Stephen Miller.”

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American-Canadian Border, Following ‘Extraordinary’ Surge of Migrant Encounters, Emerges as Immigration Hotspot

“An extreme national security vulnerability” is how the incoming border tsar, Tom Homan, describes the American-Canadian border, foreshadowing what is sure to be a focal point of the incoming Trump administration.

Canada’s border with America — the longest in the world, spanning more than 5,500 miles — has recently seen an explosion of illegal crossings. The Border Patrol tracked nearly 24,000 migrant encounters in fiscal year 2024 — more than double the roughly 10,000 encounters in the previous year and more than ten times the number from two years ago.

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Tom Homan Shreds Kathy Hochul Over ‘Tone-Deaf’ Post After Illegal Immigrant Sets Subway Passenger on Fire

Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming border czar, did not mince words during a recent interview in which he blasted New York Gov. Kathy Hochul over a “tone-deaf” social media post she wrote shortly after the news broke about an illegal immigrant setting a woman on fire in a New York City subway.

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Ahead of Schedule and Under Budget: Deporting Millions of Criminal Aliens Won’t Be as Hard as the Left Suggests

President Trump, and his nominee for “Border Czar,” Tom Homan, have made it clear they are dead-serious about deporting millions of violent criminals who are also criminal aliens.

They intend to start with the nearly 1.5 million criminal aliens already served with Orders of Deportation who have either not left America or who have snuck back in across Biden’s remarkably porous border over the past four years. Their initial target, according to Vice President-elect J.D.Vance, will be 1.0 million criminal aliens per year, focusing on those already legally ordered to leave America and not return.

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Drones, Dogs, Drug Labs: Canada’s Plan to Avoid Trump’s Tariffs Takes Shape

Canada is working on a broad plan, including drones and police dogs, to address concerns raised by President-elect Donald J. Trump about the shared border between the two nations, underscoring the urgency of avoiding threatened tariffs that would send its economy into meltdown.

Mr. Trump has made it clear that he expects America’s neighbors to keep undocumented migrants and drugs from entering the United States.

In a closely watched meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and the leaders of the country’s provinces on Wednesday, Mr. Trudeau and senior members of his government said that they would come up with measures to fortify the border.

Zero faith in the Trudeau government.

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Nearly half of Canadians favour mass deportations and 65% think there are too many immigrants: poll

Nearly half of all Canadians believe that mass deportations are necessary to stop illegal migration, new polling shows.

A Leger poll done for the Association for Canadian Studies found that 48 per cent of Canadians hold that view — just once percentage point shy of Americans polled who, with the election of Donald Trump, could see such a policy enacted when he assumes office next year.

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San Diego sheriff says she won’t honor county’s ‘sanctuary’ immigration policy

The sheriff of San Diego county defied a new policy limiting county cooperation with federal immigration authorities, setting up a showdown over California’s efforts to shield residents from Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.

On Tuesday, San Diego county supervisors voted to prohibit its sheriff’s department from working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on the federal agency’s enforcement of civil immigration laws, including those that allow for deportations.

California law already generally prohibits cooperation but makes exceptions for those convicted of certain violent crimes. The new policy brings San Diego in line with seven other counties in California, including Los Angeles, the nation’s largest, which recently adopted a policy that goes beyond state law.

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