POPE FRANCIS suggested this week that he was confused by President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, which has shielded nearly 800,000 young people who entered America illegally, as children, from deportation. “I heard the president speak: he presents himself as someone who is pro-life”, the pontiff said on September 11th, during an in-flight press conference en route from Colombia to the Vatican. “If he is a good pro-life believer, he must understand that family is the cradle of life and one must defend its unity.”
The pope was of course being disingenuous. The president campaigned for election as a pro-life Republican, but as he was a pro-choice Democrat not long before, there is some reason to question his views on the issue. The pope also suggested that Mr Trump’s ostensible reason for scrapping DACA, which was introduced by Barack Obama, was bogus. Mr Trump said it was up to Congress to settle this issue. To the contrary, said the pope, “I think this law...Continue reading
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