Pope Launches Scarcely Concealed Attack on Trump [View all]
Pope Leo XIV has promoted a former undocumented immigrant to lead West Virginia Catholics in a sign he won’t be intimidated by President Donald Trump.
Evelio Menjivar-Ayala came to the U.S. in 1990 as an undocumented immigrant, having been smuggled into the country in the trunk of a car.
On Friday, Pope Leo, who has criticized Trump’s hardline stance on immigration, tapped Menjivar-Ayala to be West Virginia’s new bishop. He will replace retiring West Virginia Bishop Mark Brennan, a man who, incidentally, helped Menjivar-Ayala secure a green card years ago.
Menjivar-Ayala, 55, has told the Washington Post how he fled violence in his home country of El Salvador three times when he was a teenager before finally arriving in Los Angeles, where his sister was living. He worked as a janitor, painter, and in construction before entering religious life.
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