This is the general sensation in the border city of El Paso (Texas), One of the most Catholic municipalities in the United States and where The Church has been leading the defense of migrants.
“He is a heart with a heart for migrants, workers, the poor and the disadvantaged“, Rubén García, director of the Annunciation House shelter network, told Efe.
Garcia, whose organization has received a legal onslaught from the Texan authorities to close it, He stressed the importance of the years in which the new Pope lived in Peru And he said confident that he will be a “continuist” of the defense of the migrants exercised by the deceased Francisco during his pontificate.
Although Robert Prevost, born in Chicago in 1955, is The first American Pope in Historydo not glimpse A special tune with the Trump administrationjust as it happened with its predecessor.
Francisco was critical of the Republican president: he said that Building walls is not a Christian, he declared that not receiving migrants is a sin And little Before his death, he openly opposed Trump’s mass deportation plan.
Leo XIV seems to follow the same line. This is indicated by the activity of until now Cardinal Prevost on social networks, because in his last message in X he shared one publication of another account that criticized the United States agreement with El Salvador to deport migrants to the maximum security prison of the Central American country.
Publications shared by the new Pope too They reflect criticisms of Vance and a commitment to the poor and with migrantsespecially Venezuelan refugees in Peru, where he spent much of his life.