The Pope: "'Builders of walls will end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build"

The Pope says all countries everywhere should take in migrants en masse, no questions asked; and if you don't, you're a hateful racist.

Link to The Independent.

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In response to a questions about immigration in general, and Donald Trump’s threat to shut down the US-Mexico border, the Pope said he could not understand in his head or his heart, how a government could be so cruel to erect razor wire concertina-wired fences to keep out migrants, or prevent migrant rescue boats from docking in ports – something he said he had been told was happening in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. “This is not the way to resolve the serious problem of immigration. I understand a government has a hot potato in its hands,” he said, according to Reuters. “But it has to resolve it in other ways, humanely.”

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Data shows the number of illegal or undocumented migrants entering the US has been steadily dropping for several years. In recent months, however, there has been a leap in the number of asylum-seekers presenting themselves to officials and trying to apply for asylum. The Associated Press said US border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day, a major expansion of an effort to address the swelling numbers.

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He said he had wept after a Spanish journalist showed him a piece of concertina wire from the border at Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta.

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This is just one picture of the thousands out there to see, of migrants taking rafts onto Spanish and Italian beaches, and then disappearing into the city to do God knows what... but apparently, if you don't like this happening to your town/country, you're a racist.



The nerve of this motherfricker...