In an open letter this week to U.S. bishops, Pope Francis called President Donald Trump’s mass deportation program a “major crisis."

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants, warning that the forceful removal of people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity and “will end badly.”

Pope Francis, 88, was challenged by President Donald Trump’s “border czar” on Tuesday after the pontiff criticized Trump’s plan to carry out mass deportations of undocumented migrants. “Czar” Tom Homan,

Pope Francis in a recent letter to US bishops says “the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation,

Pope Francis called the Trump administration's mass deportations of migrants a 'major crisis' as he warned that it 'will end badly' and accused the immigration crackdown of being 'built on the basis of force,