Pope Leo XIV has launched a fresh volley at Donald Trump over his administration’s immigration policies.

While speaking to reporters at Castel Gandolfo, his papal vacation residence outside Rome, the first American pope doubled down on his criticism of Trump’s mission to root out illegal immigration in the country. He accused the administration of treating foreigners in the U.S. in a way that was “extremely disrespectful.”

Many Catholic advocates have argued that the president’s practices conflict with Christian teaching. The vast majority of those rounded up in the anti-migrant drive—as many as nine out of 10, according to one analysis—have been Catholics from Latin America. America’s Roman Catholic bishops have condemned the Trump administration’s “indiscriminate mass deportation.”

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