Yesterday, the president of the US Catholic Bishops' conference, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston Cardinal Daniel Nicholas DiNardo, issued a powerfully worded statement condemning Trump's policies on the border wall with Mexico and halting migration and asylum from countries including Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya.
Doubtless encouraged by the famous condemnation by Pope Francis of the wall as "not Christian", the Cardinal said the it will put "lives in needless danger" and talked of the "pain, fear and heartache" of those who have come to the US.
"Today President Donald Trump made several announcements which deeply concern me," began Cardinal DiNardo. "...We have witnessed the pain, fear and heartache of people who have come to us, who have to live among us in the shadows of society. Many have suffered exploitation in the workplace, lived under the constant threat of...