text: After retired General Kelly was sworn in as Secretary of Homeland Security, I saw him bless himself. I am wondering how he can reconcile his faith with his implementation of these outrageous and indiscriminate mass deportations that are designed to go well beyond drug and human traffickers, smugglers, and would‐be terrorists.
  
  “Today the illegal migrant comes before us like that "stranger" in whom Jesus asks to be recognized. To welcome him and to show him solidarity is a duty of hospitality and fidelity to Christian identity itself.” (Message of Pope John Paul II for World Migration Day, 1996)