By Jules Gomes, The Stream - Pope Francis is equating the unique salvific events of the Exodus and the incarnation to the âphenomenon of migrationâ in his most fierce attack thus far on the Trump administrationâs deportation of illegal aliens... The pontiff, who toughened penalties for illegal entrants into the Vatican in December, released a strongly worded letter to the U.S. bishops on Tuesday, urging Catholics ânot to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary sufferingâ to migrants.