Vance implied that the nation’s bishops care less about Americans who are left vulnerable to bad actors who enter the country illegally than they do about immigrants themselves.

Vice President J.D. Vance, a practicing Catholic, said that he was “heartbroken” by what he called unfair criticism by America’s Catholic bishops of the Trump administration’s early moves to crack down on illegal immigration.

I think the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has, frankly, not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement," JD Vance said.