Vice President JD Vance’s fragile relationship with his own church has exploded in a furious brawl over migrants.

A day after Pope Leo XIV publicly called on President Donald Trump and Vance to “allow pastoral workers to assist” detained migrants, one of the administration’s most combative mouthpieces went to war with the Vatican.

Vance appears caught between the administration’s hardline immigration policies and the new pope speaking out on migrants.

Tricia McLaughlin—who as assistant homeland security secretary is Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s senior communications official—publicly attacked Pope Leo, the first American-born pontiff.

Despite her own long history of making false statements about immigration raids, McLaughlin insisted in a post on X that “religious organi

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