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CatholicVote
Nov. 13, 2025
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2025 /Standard Newswire/ — Is it immoral to enforce immigration policies? No, not when those policies are duly enacted and humanely implemented, says a new report released today by CatholicVote.
Considering the surge in illegal immigration under President Biden and the corrective deportation efforts launched by President Trump, Immigration Enforcement and the Christian Conscience examines the social doctrine of the Catholic Church to help the faithful evaluate the situation.
“A faithful Catholic approach to immigration begins not with politics but with people. Compassion, hospitality, and solidarity with the poor are not optional virtues. They are at the center of the Gospel,” said CatholicVote President and CEO Kelsey Reinhardt. “Yet, mercy and justice travel together. One without the other distorts both.”
The report argues that weak border policies endanger lives, inviting harm upon those who cross the border illegally as well as citizens of the host country, and explains how this happens.
The report explains that the Catholic Church has no official position on the practical details of immigration policies but instead offers broad moral principles, the application of which it leaves to the prudential judgement of laypersons.
“Welcoming the stranger and safeguarding one’s own citizens are not contradictory but complementary duties rooted in justice,” Reinhardt said. “The Catholic Church is rightly lauded for its care of the poor. Catholic bishops, priests, laypersons and institutions in the United States work unceasingly to ensure the dignity of every migrant is respected, with the conviction that each bears the face of Christ. That is undeniable.”
“Yet, charity is never opposed to order. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is explicit: nations have the right—and rulers the duty—to regulate their borders prudently for the sake of the common good.”
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