OAN Staff Blake Wolf
3:16 PM – Thursday, May 8, 2025

Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to his role on Thursday in Vatican City, has frequently criticized President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies in the past year — while promoting much harsher gun control laws.

Robert Prevost, who was announced as Pope Leo XIV and the successor to Pope Francis on Thursday, has been especially critical of the Trump administration’s deportation of Salvadoran illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite the fact that he was deemed a member of the “terrorist group” MS-13 by the Department of Justice.

Trump designated MS-13 as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on February 20^th, 2025. This action was part of a broader initiative targeting transnational criminal groups, including Tren de Aragua and several major Mexican cartels.

The new Pope retweeted the below post.