The Vice President said that immigrants should be treated with dignity and respect, while acknowledging that nations are allowed to be sovereign and in control of their borders.
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The Vice President said that immigrants should be treated with dignity and respect, while acknowledging that nations are allowed to be sovereign and in control of their borders.
By Catholics for Catholics
Vice President JD Vance went deep into the immigration issue as he reconciled his Catholic faith and the border policies of the Trump administration.
During an interview with The New York Post’s “Pod Force One,” Vance said that indeed, charity, especially Catholic charity, should be reconciled while treating immigrants fairly in the U.S., according to The Post.
Vance, who converted to the Catholic Church in 2019, has become the face of American traditional Catholicism since his conversion. One of the main issues has been that he apparently has been at odds with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which have voiced their concerns against President Donald Trump’s hardnosed immigration policies.
Still, Vance told The Post’s Miranda Devine that the Trump administration is looking to value the dignity of migrants while also being able to close the southern border.
"Are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?"
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“The Vatican, especially under Pope Francis, had a particular line on immigration. And I try to interpret this stuff charitably, partially because I’m a new Catholic,” explained Vance. “I think the Catholic Church recognizes we have to have border control. … That’s very clearly written in Catholic teaching, is that nations are allowed sovereignty, they’re allowed to control their own borders.”
“However, it’s always useful to remind ourselves that a lot of the people who have come into our country, they’re struggling in some way. They’re human beings,” he said. “And even though we have to engage in immigration enforcement, I try to remind myself — consistent with church teaching — that doesn’t mean we can let these people stay in our country, but I do have a responsibility to try to remember their humanity.”
“And that’s sort of my charitable interpretation is: Yes, you can have your border policy; yes, you can enforce your borders. You also have to try to [remember] that all 8 billion people who are alive on this planet are God’s creatures, we have to owe them a certain respect and a certain dignity — doesn’t mean we should let them illegally immigrate into our country.”
During the Biden administration, as many as 8 million migrants swarmed the US through an amalgam of programs that flew, bussed or permitted them to walk through ports of entry — while others charged past Border Patrol agents and were later released into the interior of the country.
Vance responds to somebody who accused him of pushing policies that hurt immigrants:
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According to Vance, any ill-feeling over the immigration issue has been directed by Trump officials toward their Biden-era predecessors for having “waved the magic asylum” or “waived the parole law” to permit the entries, according to The Post.
“I would say, and this is something that I really wish that all Christians took more seriously, that, yes, we have to show dignity to people, whether they’re in our country legally or illegally, but when you encourage illegal immigration [at] the scale that Joe Biden did, you empower the cartels, you empower these people who are raping and murdering and selling 12 year old girls [as] sex slaves,” he said.
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