The new archbishop of Detroit appointed Tuesday by Pope Francis criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development and once suggested that Catholics “involved” in Trump’s border policies could receive “canonical penalties,” including excommunication.

The appointment of Bishop Edward Weisenburger came on the same day that the Pope in a letter to U.S. bishops criticized Trump’s policy of mass deportations of illegal immigrants and urged American Catholics not to lean into anti-immigrant sentiment. Francis also warned that criminalizing immigrants over their legal status deprives them of their dignity and “will end badly.”

“What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly,” the Pontiff wrote.

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