Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has a history of criticizing President Trump’s immigration policies on X. Below are archived versions of his posts.

February 3, 2025 (on JD Vance):

Content: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.” Included a link to a National Catholic Reporter article with the same title.

Context: Criticized Vance’s Fox News comments on “ordo amoris,” a Catholic concept he used to justify prioritizing love for family and citizens over immigrants.

February 13, 2025 (on JD Vance and Pope Francis):

Content: Shared an article from America, The Jesuit Review, with the caption: “Pope Francis’ letter, JD Vance’s ‘ordo amoris’ and what the Gospel asks of all of us on immigration.”

Context: Supported Pope Francis’ letter to U.S. bishops criticizing Vance’s use of Catholic doctrine to defend Trump’s immigration policies.

April 14, 2025 (on Trump and Bukele):

Content: Reposted a tweet by Catholic commentator Rocco Palmo, including a link to an article by Bishop Evelio Menjivar. The repost quoted: “As Trump & Bukele use Oval to [aid] Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident, once an undoc-ed Salvadorean himself, now-[Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar] asks, ‘Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?’”

Context: Criticized Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for laughing about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

July 31, 2015 (on Trump):

Content: Posted a quote from Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s Washington Post op-ed: “Cardinal Dolan: Why Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is so problematic,” with a link to the article.

Context: Criticized Trump’s early campaign rhetoric on immigration.

2017 (on Trump’s “bad hombres” comment):

Content: Retweeted a post criticizing Trump’s use of the phrase “bad hombres” as fueling “racism and nativism.”

Context: Highlighted concerns about Trump’s immigration rhetoric.

2018 (on Trump’s family separation policy):

Content: Retweeted a post by Cardinal Cupich: “There is nothing remotely Christian, American, or morally defensible about a policy that takes children away from their parents and warehouses them in cages. This is being carried out in our name and the shame is on us all.”

Context: Condemned Trump’s family separation policy at the U.S. border.