ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed in on the incoming U.S. president’s pledges nearly a decade after calling him “not Christian” for wanting to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.

In his new autobiography Hope, he recalled how his paternal grandparents and father had planned to migrate to Argentina in 1927 aboard the Principessa Mafalda, which tragically sank with many lives lost. They ultimately made a later crossing, an experience that has shaped his commitment to migrant advocacy.

Pope Francis extended his prayers and "cordial greetings" to President-elect Trump ahead of his inaugural ceremony Monday morning.

Francis previously said that Trump cannot be a Christian if he plans to build a wall to keep migrants from Mexico out.

Pope Francis has criticized US President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace.” The pontiff, speaking during an Italian television interview, was asked about the incoming Trump administration’s plans to expel undocumented immigrants through an aggressive slate of immigration executive orders by the incoming president,