Homan’s Call for Catholic Complicity in Trumpian Border Policies Exposes Conciliar Apostasy

The Catholic News Agency portal (December 12, 2025) reports on U.S. border czar Tom Homan’s interview with Raymond Arroyo, where he demands that “the Catholic Church should support keeping the community safe” through mass deportations and harsh immigration enforcement under Trump’s second administration. Homan justifies family separations and deportations of 600,000 individuals by invoking national security concerns, while dismissing the United States Conference of Catholic “Bishops” (USCCB) concerns about detention conditions as irrelevant to law enforcement priorities. This Machiavellian calculus exposing migrants to forced labor and sexual slavery constitutes a wholesale abandonment of Catholic social principles.

Utilitarian Calculus Versus the Sanctity of Human Life

Homan’s assertion that “if you’re in the country illegally, you’re not off the table” directly contradicts the Church’s perennial teaching on the imago Dei (image of God) inherent in every human being. Pope Pius XII’s 1952 apostolic constitution Exsul Familia explicitly affirmed that migration rights derive from natural law: “The natural law itself, no less than devotion to humanity, urges that ways of migration be opened to these people.” The Cato Institute data revealing that 73% of deportees have no criminal convictions demolishes Homan’s pretense of targeting “public safety threats,” exposing enforcement as collective punishment against economic migrants.

Homan’s reduction of immigration to a binary legal/illegal paradigm ignores the Church’s distinction between leges injustae (unjust laws) and the jus naturale (natural law). As Leo XIII taught in Libertas Praestantissimum, “Human law is law only by virtue of its accordance with right reason; and thus it is manifest that it flows from the eternal law. In so far as it deviates from right reason it is called an unjust law; in such case it is no law at all, but rather a species of violence.” The Trump administration’s blanket criminalization of asylum seekers constitutes precisely such “species of violence” against divine law.

Conciliar “Bishops” Fail to Uphold Catholic Doctrine

While the USCCB nominally opposes “indiscriminate mass deportation,” their tepid statement that “human dignity and national security are not in conflict” constitutes dangerous equivocation. Contrast this with Pope Pius X’s unambiguous condemnation in Vehementer Nos: “The Church does not occupy herself with what is provisional, changing, and passing; her action bears wholly on what is absolute, eternal, immutable.” True shepherds would denounce Homan’s policies as intrinsically evil under Veritatis Splendor criteria, rather than negotiating “humane” enforcement parameters.

The USCCB’s silence regarding the sacramental status of detained migrants proves particularly damning. Canon 844 of the 1917 Code mandated that “in danger of death, or in urgent necessity… any priest can validly and licitly absolve any penitents from any censures and sins” regardless of jurisdiction. Where are demands for priestly access to detention centers? This omission reveals the conciliar church’s de facto acceptance of the state’s absolute claim over human bodies – a pagan conception antithetical to Catholic ecclesiology.

Family Separation as State-Sanctioned Child Abuse

Homan’s admission that 62,456 children were separated from families during enforcement operations constitutes institutionalized child endangerment. Pope Pius XI’s Casti Connubii affirmed that “the family holds directly from the Creator the mission and hence the right to educate offspring” – a right Trump’s policies systematically violate. The claim that some children were “safe and with family” while others faced “forced sexual slavery” demonstrates reckless disregard for juvenile welfare, violating the Church’s teaching on the state’s subsidiarity obligation to protect family integrity.

“About half that, 300,000, according to records, have already aged out, which means they’re over 18 already. But … we’re still going to try to locate them … We’re going to do everything we can till the last day of this administration to find these kids.”

This bureaucratic indifference towards minors recalls Herod’s slaughter of innocents more than Christian governance. St. Thomas Aquinas taught in the Summa Theologiae (II-II Q10 A12) that “children of unbelievers either have not yet attained the use of reason, and then they are excused… or they have attained the use of reason, and then either they accept the faith or not.” No Catholic justification exists for traumatizing children to deter parents – a policy rooted in pagan deterrence theory, not Thomistic jurisprudence.

False Dichotomy Between Security and Charity

Homan’s assertion that “a border wall saves lives” employs utilitarian calculus alien to Catholic moral theology. The Church has never accepted that bonum commune (common good) justifies intrinsic evils – a principle articulated in Humanae Vitae regarding contraception. When Homan suggests Catholic leaders should meet deportees’ families to understand enforcement’s “necessity,” he inverts the Gospel imperative, demanding that shepherds validate Caesar’s cruelty rather than protect their flock.

The border czar’s claim that “illegal migration is not a victimless crime” ironically applies better to his own policies. Trump’s 5,000+ family separations during his first term and current mass deportations create countless victims: children orphaned, breadwinners deported, communities shattered. Pius XII’s 1945 Christmas Message condemned such collectivist punishment: “He who would have the star of peace shine out… must repudiate the fallacy that those who promote disruption… can advantageously reconstruct a new era.”

Antichurch Complicity in State Paganism

The interview’s most revealing moment comes when Homan states: “The Catholic Church should support keeping the community safe again.” This reduction of the Church’s mission to a public safety auxiliary exposes the conciliar sect’s decades-long accommodation with secular power. Contrast this with Pius XI’s Quas Primas, establishing Christ’s social kingship: “When once men recognize… that Christ has authority over all mankind… it will be possible to heal their wounds.”

The absence of any reference to Christ’s universal kingship in either Homan’s remarks or USCCB’s response demonstrates the conciliar church’s complete secularization. Instead of demanding nations submit to the Regnum Christi, “Pope” Leo XIV offers watery appeals for “humane treatment” while accepting the state’s Godless immigration framework. This constitutes formal cooperation with structural evil – the very “silence of shepherds” Our Lady of La Salette (authentically recognized pre-1958) lamented before heaven.

Conclusion: Only Return to Tradition Can Heal Nations

This sordid episode reveals the conciliar church’s inability to defend basic Catholic principles against pagan state power. As faithful remnant Catholics, we must reject both Trump’s ruthless utilitarianism and the USCCB’s cowardly compromise. Only restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King – with nations submitting to divine law through consecrated Catholic rulers – can resolve migration justly. Let us pray for the resurrection of true Catholic states where “justice shall spring forth, and abundance of peace… And He shall rule from sea to sea” (Psalm 71:7-8).

Source:
Border czar says Catholic leaders should ‘support’ safety (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 12.12.2025