ORLANDO (RNS) — The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops offered a thinly veiled critique on Thursday (June 15) of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others who have transported immigrants out of Republican-run border states to Democratic strongholds, calling the practice “problematic.”During a press conference at the spring gathering of the USCCB in Orlando, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head of the USCCB as well as the Archdiocese for the Military Services, was asked by a reporter about Republican governors transporting migrants from states such as Texas to places such as California.
“I suppose if they’re transporting them to make a statement, then that seems to me to be problematic,” Broglio responded. “If you’re transporting them because those other states might be better able to respond to the immediate needs, well, then, that might be a way of responding to the problem. However, I suspect that it’s more to make a statement.”
Broglio added, “That would be the judgment on my part, which I’m really not necessarily capable of making.”
The remarks come in the wake of news that Florida paid to transport 36 mostly Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Sacramento earlier this month. According to the Associated Press, recruiters working for DeSantis, who is Catholic, targeted a Catholic Church in Texas — Sacred Heart Catholic Church in El Paso — to find asylum-seekers to fly to California on jets paid for …
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“I suppose if they’re transporting them to make a statement, then that seems to me to be problematic,” Broglio responded. “If you’re transporting them because those other states might be better able to respond to the immediate needs, well, then, that might be a way of responding to the problem. However, I suspect that it’s more to make a statement.”
Broglio added, “That would be the judgment on my part, which I’m really not necessarily capable of making.”
The remarks come in the wake of news that Florida paid to transport 36 mostly Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Sacramento earlier this month. According to the Associated Press, recruiters working for DeSantis, who is Catholic, targeted a Catholic Church in Texas — Sacred Heart Catholic Church in El Paso — to find asylum-seekers to fly to California on jets paid for …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]