CBS News
February 12, 2016
With
a wave and a smile, Pope Francis took off on his second trip to Latin
America as head of the Catholic Church, kicking off his six-day trip to
Mexico, the world's
second largest Catholic country.
Francis
-- the child of immigrants himself -- will address the issue of
immigration with a mass at the U.S.-Mexico border, but even before his
arrival on Friday, presidential
candidate Donald Trump played politics with the pope's approach,
reports CBS News correspondent Manual Bojorquez.
"The
pope is a very political person. I think he doesn't understand the
problems our country has, I don't think he understands the danger of the
open border that we have
with Mexico and I think Mexico got him to do it because Mexico wants to
keep the border just the way it is, because they're making a fortune
and we're losing," Trump said.
Michael O'Loughlin, national reporter for the Catholic publication Crux, refuted Trump's allegations.
"Does
Pope Francis understand how border security works? Of course he does,"
O'Loughlin said. "He just wants the United States to consider a more
humane approach to immigration."
This won't be the first time the pontiff takes on a controversial topic.
While visiting the U.S. last fall, he spoke about immigration and climate change during an address to Congress.
A day later, he called the drug war "poorly fought" at the United Nations.
The pope will revisit the topic on this trip by visiting the heart of Mexico's drug problems; the state of Michoacan.
The Catholic Church hopes his time in the country will reinvigorate Catholicism.
"The
percentage of Mexican Catholics, while still around 80 percent, has
been dropping in recent years," O'Loughlin said. "It's a chance for the
pope to celebrate on one
hand, but on the other hand, try to save a church that is a little bit
in decline."
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