'Lying is a sin': DeSantis spokeswoman claims Miami archbishop lied about governor's remarks

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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article258414918.html

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office escalated the war of words on Tuesday with the leader of Florida’s Roman Catholic Church, saying Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski “lied” last week when he spoke against an executive action that targets shelters housing unaccompanied migrant youth.

“Lying is a sin,” the governor’s press secretary, Christina Pushaw, wrote in a tweet accompanying a photograph of the archbishop that included a quote from Wenski from a Feb. 10 press conference at the Archdiocese of Miami. At the event, business and religious leaders along with immigration advocates opposed DeSantis’ immigration policies.

About 20 minutes after her tweet, Pushaw clarified in another tweet that she meant to refer to Wenski personally: “I pointed out that he lied about what @GovRonDeSantis said....”

Pushaw was referring to a comment by Wenski last week in which the archbishop said: “Children are children, and no child should be deemed disgusting, especially by a public servant.”

Wenski’s comments alluded to a Feb. 7 round-table discussion, in which DeSantis said it was “disgusting” to compare Operation Pedro Pan, a 1960s relocation of thousands of Cuban youth to South Florida, to the resettlement of unaccompanied minors under President Biden’s administration, which the Republican governor has repeatedly called a “human-smuggling operation.”

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1. DeSantis is a un-American pos