Cardinal McElroy rips Trump’s ‘war of fear and terror’
February 10, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Robert McElroy, who in March will become Archbishop of Washington, DC, offered a preview of the his likely clashes with President Trump, during a prayer service for immigrants in San Diego on February 9.
Urging participants to speak out against the Trump crackdown on illegal immigration, the cardinal said: “We must speak up and proclaim that this unfolding misery and suffering and, yes, war of fear and terror cannot be tolerated in our midst.”
Cardinal McElroy charged that Trump’s policies go beyond preserving national borders, and have “become an indiscriminate campaign to bring fear into the hearts of every undocumented person, man, woman, mother, child, family in our society.”
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Feb. 10, 2025 1:58 PM ET USA
The past four years of total chaos at what used to be the country's border couldn't possibly end well for anyone involved. I hope that other US Bishops find enough gumption to see the actual source of the uncontrolled illegal migration problems, which wasn't Trump, and offer some reasonable opinions and solutions. Cardinal McElroy sounds here like a Democrat politician.
