He Pope Francis indicated Friday that Catholics in the United States will have to choose the “lesser evil” in the next election, referring to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris’ defense of abortion rights and Republican Donald Trump’s promise to deport millions of immigrants.

«Both (cases) are against life“The one who sends back migrants and the one who kills children,” Francis said when asked which candidate U.S. Catholic voters should vote for at a news conference on board a plane returning from a tour of Asia and Oceania.

The Pope defended that “it is a grave sin to expel migrants without giving them the opportunity to work or shelter” and recalled that the Old Testament always says that we must welcome the “stranger, the orphan and the widow” and once again emphasized that anyone who does not welcome a migrant commits a sin against life.”

Francis He remembered his Mass at the Mexican border in El Paso.where the shoes of migrants who died trying to cross it were found, and said that there is now “a flood of migrants coming from Central America who are being treated like slaves and taken advantage of.”

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Regarding abortion, he assured that “it kills a person” and that “even if these are words that you don’t like, it is murder.”

“You may not like it, but this is murder and it does not mean the Church is closed. The church does not allow abortion. “Because this is murder, and this is clear to us,” he emphasized.

And he repeated once again: “Expelling immigrants is evil, and throwing a child out of the womb of the mother is murder, and this must be said clearly and without “buts”. Both are clear.”

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“I am not an American and I will vote for the wrong woman (referring to Harris) or the wrong man (Trump) who everyone does it according to their own conscience” he claimed.

Abortion and the immigration problem there were some issues of strong opposition between the two candidates during a televised debate this week. (EFE)