The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee chastised the Biden administration and red-state governors for their handling of immigration and called for all sides to collaborate on better treatment.
Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, said efforts to ship migrants, “and in some cases intentionally deceive them,” are “unbecoming of a moral society.”
He also lashed the Biden administration for its announcement last week that it would expand use of a Trump-era policy to expel new illegal immigrants at the border with Mexico.
“Neither situation reflects a ‘safe, orderly and humane’ immigration system, but their shared irreverence for human lives is all too common in our present culture,” Bishop Dorsonville said in a new reflection published by the conference.