Pope Francis condemned President Donald Trump's administration for its deportation policies after the Vatican City State cracked down on its own borders. Francis, the first Latin American pontiff rebuked Trump in a letter criticizing mass deportations this week,

In the letter, the pope said the criminalization of migrants and the mass deportations planned by the U.S. government are dangerous and called the country's current immigration policies a “major crisis.

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.