EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Few world leaders nowadays are putting out the welcome mat for migrants. Instead, many are painting them as criminals, freeloaders or a threat to jobs or national security, immigration advocates say.

That’s why having the support of the head of the 1.4 billion-strong Roman Catholic Church could make a difference in changing those views, says Dylan Corbett, executive director of El Paso’s Hope Border Institute.

Corbett was part of a delegation of El Paso Catholic leaders and community activists who met with Pope Leo XIV in Rome last month. They talked about the plight of migrants whose hopes of finding a better life have been stunted by closed borders and the fear of family separation among many families in the United States.

“It’s clear that the pope app

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