New York Times
By Jim Yardley
February 17, 2016
Pope
Francis is finishing his six-day trip to Mexico on Wednesday, with his
final stop at Ciudad Juárez, at the border with the United States. He
will not step into the
United States, but he will certainly step directly into the angry
American political debate about immigration.
Which is exactly what he wants.
Few
issues matter more to Francis than the global, polarizing issue of the
plight of migrants. In the United States, Donald J. Trump promises to
make Mexico build a border
wall if he is elected president, while many of his Republican
presidential rivals scramble to out-tough one another. In Europe,
countries are hurriedly throwing up fences to block waves of Syrians,
Afghans and others fleeing war and poverty.
Francis
will celebrate Mass in a fairground barely 300 feet from the Rio
Grande, and will step to the edge of the border. Mr. Trump recently
criticized the Latin American
pope over his border visit and argued that Francis did not understand
“the danger of the open border we have with Mexico.”
We’re
expecting the visit to be a big moment, one that will be broadcast
around the world. The New York Times is going to run a live blog to
document it in real time.
We will have reporters in Juárez with Francis and among the crowds, as
well as across the border in El Paso. Our political team will keep an
eye out for any reaction from the Democratic and Republican presidential
candidates.
We’ll
start the blog at 2:30 p.m. Mountain time (4:30 p.m. Eastern), shortly
before Francis is expected to visit the border area, with reports from
the scene. Please join
us at nytimes.com.
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