Pontiff told Mexican TV “Those who build walls end up being prisoners of the walls they build.”
Pope Francis has said that the separations of parents and children at the U.S. southern border are among the “greatest of cruelties,” and if given the chance he would tell President Donald Trump so.
Pope Francis waves to the faithful during the weekly audience in St. Peter's Square on May 29, 2019 in Vatican City, Vatican. He has criticized the separation of children from their parents at the border. Franco Origlia/Getty Images Vatican reporter Valentina Alazraki asked the Pope what he would say to Trump to which the pontiff replied: “The same. The same because I say it publicly...I have even said that those who build walls end up being prisoners of the walls they build.”
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