Border czar Homan fires back at Pope Leo, explains what Vatican leaders 'don't know' about immigration

Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Homan, a "lifelong Catholic," said, "I wish they'd stay out of immigration, they don't know what they're talking about."

"If they wore my shoes for 40 years, and talked to a 9-year-old girl that got raped multiple times, or stood in the back of a tractor trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet, including a 5-year-old boy that baked to death, if they understood the atrocities that happened on the open border, I think their opinion would change," he said.

"Where President Trump had the most secure border in the lifetime of this nation, right now, lives are being saved," he emphasized.

In light of this, Homan said, "I welcome discussion with any of them, because they don't understand illegal immigration is not a victimless crime."

"Human traffickers are out of business, right? The cartels are going bankrupt because of that secure border. I wish they'd understand that," he lamented. "Because if they did, I think they'd have a different opinion."

Fox News Digital reached out to the Holy See for comment.

"When people are living good lives, and many of them for 10, 15, 20 years, to treat them in a way that is extremely disrespectful, to say the least, and there's been some violence, unfortunately, I think that the bishops have been very clear in what they said. I think that I would just invite all people in the United States to listen to them," the pope has said.

Trump criticized the pope's positions on Sunday in a scathing rebuke on Truth Social.

"Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It's hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it's hurting the Catholic Church," he concluded.

"We don't want a pope that says crime is OK in our cities. I don't like it," Trump added. "I'm not a big fan of Pope Leo. He's a very liberal person, and he's a man that doesn't believe in stopping crime."

"Too many people are suffering in the world today," Leo added. "Too many innocent people are being killed. And I think someone has to stand up and say there's a better way."

Vance, who has visited the Vatican twice as vice president, dismissed the feud, saying, "We certainly have a good relationship with the Vatican, but we're also [going to] disagree on substantive questions from time to time. I think that's a totally reasonable thing."