Bishop Barron Urges Dialogue on Immigration, Citing Child Trafficking at the Border
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Updated · Fox News · May 24
Bishop Barron Urges Dialogue on Immigration, Citing Child Trafficking at the Border
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 24
Bishop Robert Barron said Catholics on the left should stop “demonizing” the Trump administration and instead engage conservatives in dialogue over immigration, Iran and other flashpoint issues.
Child trafficking and missing children were central to his case for stricter border security, which he said gives Republicans moral grounds—not simply political ones—for enforcing immigration law.
Tom Homan’s recent White House appeal on border harms deeply influenced Barron; Barron said the border czar described returning from retirement twice after witnessing the damage of an open border.
Barron, who serves on Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, also pushed for talks between Catholic officials in the administration—such as JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Brian Burch—and their Vatican counterparts.
He argued the church should supply a moral framework while elected leaders make prudential policy judgments, offering that split as a way to ease tensions in the Trump-Vatican relationship.
Amidst diplomatic tensions, can dialogue between Washington and the Vatican forge a shared moral framework for U.S. immigration policy?
Can the Catholic Church unify its members on an immigration path that honors both human dignity and national security?