(ANSA) - Vatican City, June 20 - Pope Francis has said that
populist politicians were "creating psychosis" on the issue of
migration in an interview with Reuters published on Wednesday.
He said that ageing societies like those in Europe face "a
great demographic winter" and "will become empty" without
migration.
The pontiff also criticised the United States
administration's policy of separating the children of migrants
from their parents at the Mexican border.
"It's not easy, but populism is not the solution," Francis
said.
He said he backed statements by bishops in American who
called the policy "contrary to our Catholic values" and
"immoral".
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