To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Pope Leo XIV, who has sparred with the Trump administration over its immigration crackdown, spent the Fourth of July honouring migrants who have died trying to reach Europe to find freedom. As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with rallies, parties and fireworks, history’s first U.S.-born pope travelled to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa. While there, he prays at a migrant cemetery and celebrated a solemn Mass for the island’s residents and newest arrivals. A treeless strip of rock 5.6 miles long, Lampedusa is closer to Africa than the Italian mainland and is the main port of entry into Europe for hundreds of thousands of migrants wh