The newly selected pope, Chicago-born Robert Prevost, recently bashed Vice President JD Vance and has shared several highly critical posts about President Donald Trump and his immigration policies.

“There is nothing remotely Christian, American, or morally defensible about a policy that takes children away from their parents and warehouses them in cages. This is being carried out in our name and the shame is on us all,” Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV, said in a recent post on X about Trump’s immigration policies.

“As Trump & [Salvadoran President Nayib] Bukele use Oval to [laughing crying emoji] Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident, once an undoc-ed Salvadoran himself, now-DC [auxiliary bishop Evelio [Menjivar] asks, ‘Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscious not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?'” the post read.

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