The vice president said allowing ICE to search inside schools and churches is necessary to ensure public safety and that he was heartbroken at pushback from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Vice President JD Vance acknowledged Pope Francis’ criticism of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, without responding to any of its specifics or to the pontiff’s apparent criticism of Vance’s own deployment of Catholic tradition to justify such policies.

Vice President JD Vance will speak at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday, just weeks after criticizing the church’s leadership over illegal immigration. Vance, who is Catholic, criticized the church during his first week in office by saying it receives more than $100 million in federal grants to provide services to migrants and that