I do not attribute it to malice but to his sheer narrow-mindedness.
It seems to him that the current Pope and his predecessor are favorable to immigrants, and without really knowing what that entails, he jumps on the bandwagon by turning his patron saint into just another immigrant. In doing so, he fell far short with Saint Fermín, when he could have cited Jesus himself as an immigrant, who undoubtedly carries far more weight than the one on July 7th.
What possessed him to come and tell Saint Fermín that he was an immigrant, something the saint himself had never realized? Next thing, he’ll be calling him an astronaut too, for having gone up to heaven.
I also find it stupid that he wants to latch onto immigration, perhaps hoping to gain papal recognition with an eye on being given Barcelona.
Stay in Pamplona, where you are far superior even to what you are worth, and forget about Barcelona, where you are absolutely incapable of carrying out even a mediocre pontificate, for which only someone with lights almost as limited as yours, Omella, could have nominated you.