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30 October 2025|America Media - Kevin Clarke
Archbishop Wenski says Trump should ‘take a victory lap’ on border control and ‘pivot’ from mass deportation
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Miami’s Archbishop Thomas Wenski understands in his bones the plight of today’s immigrants. He can draw on his own experience as the child of a Polish immigrant with family roots in the immigrant stronghold of Detroit as well as his unique perspective as a pastoral leader in a part of the country that has been powerfully redefined by the immigrant experience.
In an online forum sponsored by Jesuit Refugee Service USA on Oct. 28, Archbishop Wenski recalled how unwelcome Haitian immigrants had initially been in South Florida and when Cuban immigrants fell from grace following the infamous Mariel Boatlift in 1980.
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