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Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday strongly affirmed U.S. bishops’ message condemning the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps, calling on Americans to listen to the migrants and treat them humanely and with dignity.

The pope was asked about the “special message” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops adopted during their general assembly last week in Baltimore.

The bishops blasted President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda and the “vilification” of migrants, expressing concern over the fear and anxiety immigration raids stoking in communities, as well as the denial of pastoral care to migrants in detention centers.

“We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enfo

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