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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is hitting back after Pope Francis says his views on immigration are "not Christian". Vanessa Johnston reports.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says Pope Francis was convinced "illegal immigration is like a wonderful thing." Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
During his State of the Union Speech, US President Joe Biden hits out at his predecessor and 2024 White House opponent Donald Trump's rhetoric on immigration. "I will not demonize immigrants saying they're 'poisoning the blood of our country,'" Biden says, referring to Trump's words, and urging Congress to pass immigration reforms. SOUNDBITE
Republican lawmakers pass an immigration package that would restart stalled construction of Donald Trump's southern border wall as the United States braces for a sudden increase in migrant crossings from Mexico. The Secure the Border Act of 2023, which advanced from the Republican-led House of Representatives on a roughly party-line 219-213 vote, would reintroduce several signature Trump-era measures, from completing the wall to bolstering asylum restrictions. IMAGES
Pope Francis meets with representatives of the Ecumenical Council of Churches and some Jewish communities in Hungary. IMAGES