Isn’t the tightening of European migration policy contradictory with the words of the Catholic Church on welcoming migrants?
Our world is experiencing a profound disorder on the subject of migration, the first victims of which are all the people exploited by smuggling networks, which are the most dangerous mafias of our time. Getting out of this situation is a humanitarian priority. I see no contradiction between the work that we are carrying out in the European Parliament on illegal immigration and the words of the Church which recalls the urgency of protecting life and human dignity. I also say it as a Catholic even if, attached to secularism, I have never made my faith a political standard.
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