As the nation's capital buzzed about President Trump's latest tweets and political fate, a Catholic cardinal who is one of the hierarchy's most visible champions of undocumented immigrants blasted Republicans for ignoring immigration reform and “inflicting cruelty on innocent people.”
“Now think about it, especially right now, with apparent one-party rule in our government: Congress and the president could pass comprehensive immigration reform tomorrow if they wanted to,” Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark told an audience of journalists meeting in Brooklyn on Wednesday (May 17). “They could bring nearly 12 million people out of the shadows — if they wanted to.
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