The U.S. border czar has pushed back against Pope Francis' criticism of the U.S. mass deportation of migrants plan

In a letter to American bishops, Francis leveled unusually direct criticism at the administration on an issue he has made central to his papacy.

Pope Francis issued a major rebuke of the Trump administration’s plans for the mass deportations, taking particular aim at comments made by Vice President JD Vance.

Pope Francis called the Trump administration's mass deportations of migrants a 'major crisis' as he warned that it 'will end badly' and accused the immigration crackdown of being 'built on the basis of force,