Migrants are increasingly being used
as bargaining chips and are becoming the victims of political
rivalries, Pope Francis said in a video message to the
International Organization for Migration (IOM) Monday.
"Migrants are increasingly used as a bargaining chip, as pawns
on a chess board, the victims of political rivalries," he said.
"How can you exploit suffering and desperation in order to
advance or defend political agendas?
"How can political considerations prevail when it is the dignity
of the human person that is at stake?
"The underlying lack of human respect at national borders
diminishes us all in our humanity".
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