In a rare statement, the Pontiff urges Catholics in the United States to reject ‘narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters’

Francis took the remarkable step of addressing the U.S. migrant crackdown in a letter to the bishops of the United States, who have criticized the expulsions as harming the most vulnerable. History's first Latin American pope has long made caring for migrants a priority of his pontificate,