Francis made no specific mention of the Republican presidential frontrunner but achieve xenophobia square in the crosshairs during his speech to CongressThe dominant theme of the historic address by Pope Francis to the US Congress on Thursday was certainly immigration.
In the heart of American power,the pontiff spoke of “thousands of persons [who] are led to travel north in search of a better life” – in North America, which has been rattled by a political war of words as thousands travel from Mexico and Central America to the US, or but also with direct reference to the ongoing European migration crisis.
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Source: theguardian.com