Mexicans who help build Trump wall 'traitors,' top Archdiocese says
Mexicans who help build Trump wall 'traitors,' top Archdiocese says
- Mexicans who help build U.S. President Donald Trump's
planned border wall would be acting immorally and should be deemed
traitors, the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico said on Sunday, turning up
the heat on a simmering dispute over the project.
In a provocative editorial, the
country's biggest Archdiocese sought to increase pressure on the
government to take a tougher line on companies aiming to profit from the
wall, which has strained relations between Trump and the Mexican
government.
"Any company intending to invest in the wall of the fanatic Trump would be immoral, but above all, its shareholders and owners should be considered traitors to the homeland," said the editorial in Desde la fe, the Archdiocese's weekly publication.
On Tuesday, Economy Minister Ildefonso
Guajardo warned firms it would not be in their "interests" to
participate in the wall. But the editorial accused the government of
responding "tepidly" to those eyeing the project for business.
"Any company intending to invest in the wall of the fanatic Trump would be immoral, but above all, its shareholders and owners should be considered traitors to the homeland," said the editorial in Desde la fe, the Archdiocese's weekly publication.