As if the relentless lawfare against President Trump wasn’t bad enough, now the upper ranks of the Catholic Church are jumping into the political fray—this time to attack his strong border policies. In a stunning display of left-wing activism disguised as theology, Cardinal Robert McElroy used a recent speech in Washington, D.C., to denounce Trump’s immigration stance, absurdly claiming that efforts to secure the border amount to an “evil crusade.”
McElroy, who was handpicked by Pope Francis—a pope widely seen as pushing a radical globalist agenda—spoke at the Jesuit Refugee Service conference on March 24, where he shamelessly equated tough immigration enforcement with moral failure.
Taking direct aim at Trump’s commitment to restoring law and order at the border, McElroy outrageously claimed, “The pathway of crusade and mass deportation cannot be followed in conscience by those who call themselves disciples of Jesus Christ, and we must work to make sure that that does not happen.”
In other words, according to this leftist cleric, simply enforcing the law and securing America’s sovereignty is somehow a sin.
Doubling down on his radical pro-migration stance, McElroy falsely suggested that Americans *want* mass migration, saying, “The first pathway—which Catholic social teaching would support—is to change our laws so that they have secure borders and dignity for the treatment of everyone at those borders and a generous asylum and refugee policy … I actually believe most Americans would be in favor of that pathway.”
Most Americans? That’s news to the millions who have been demanding that Washington get serious about stopping the unprecedented illegal invasion pouring across the southern border.
Not content with twisting political reality, McElroy then tried to warp Catholic teaching itself, invoking Pope Francis and the Good Samaritan parable to guilt-trip Americans into supporting open borders.
“Pope Francis talks about the victim lying by the side of the road. What desperation and hopelessness must be sinking in for him,” McElroy preached, clearly trying to draw a comparison between illegal immigrants and the injured man in the biblical story.
He went further, subtly accusing Americans who want border security of being akin to the *robber* in the Good Samaritan story:
“Then there are the figures of the robbers. We don’t see them, but we see what they have done. And Francis says, ‘Each of us in our own lives, is also the robber.’ Each of us, at times, victimizes others… We must be in touch with that side of ourselves and with the darkness which is the robber inside every one of us.”
So, according to McElroy, those who support law and order, and demand that America enforce its immigration laws, are the *real criminals*? This is the kind of unhinged moral manipulation that has driven so many Catholics to question the Vatican’s increasingly radical leftist agenda.
McElroy’s speech is just the latest attempt by the left—whether in politics, media, or now the church—to undermine President Trump’s efforts to put America first. While McElroy preaches about “compassion,” he conveniently ignores the destruction caused by illegal immigration—rampant crime, overwhelmed social services, and jobs taken from hardworking Americans.
Instead of using his pulpit to push globalist talking points, perhaps McElroy should focus on the actual biblical teachings of law, order, and justice. Americans don’t need lectures from politically motivated clergy—they need leaders who will protect the country and put its citizens first.
