Pope Francis condemned President Donald Trump's administration for its deportation policies after the Vatican City State cracked down on its own borders. Francis, the first Latin American pontiff rebuked Trump in a letter criticizing mass deportations this week,

Border czar” Tom Homan, who oversees President Trump’s mass deportation program, shot back at Pope Francis after he chastised the administration’s approach to immigration enforcement.

In the letter, the pope said the criminalization of migrants and the mass deportations planned by the U.S. government are dangerous and called the country's current immigration policies a “major crisis.