American Pope Uses First Major Speech to Rebuke Trump Immigration Policy

What was said

"The first American Pope has used his first major speech to praise the history of welcoming migrants, urging Americans to live up to the ideals put forward in the Declaration of Independence. And this is his latest rebuke to Donald Trump. He said the word America has become a byword for freedom across the world because of the way the country welcomed migrants."

The first American Pope delivered a major rebuke to Trump's immigration policies by praising America's history of welcoming migrants and connecting it to the Declaration of Independence during 250th anniversary commemorations. Professor Brooks interprets this as the Pope treating American founding documents as sacred text and speaking over Trump's head to call the nation back to its better angels, similar to how Martin Luther King used constitutional documents.