Posted on 09/20/2014 9:02:26 AM PDT by magna carta
At a time when fear-mongering rhetoric against unaccompanied minors crossing our borders has risen to a deafening roar, the community conversation should reject inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric and instead focus on concrete responses.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.chron.com ...
I wonder why these two commie lib pixies don’t take on and badmouth the parental units of these so called “unaccompanied minors” and the governments of the countries that these “minors” crawled out of. Why does it always take TWO morons to right commie lib ‘RAT propaganda like this? One to hold the crayon and the other to move the paper?
ADL & ARCHDIOCESE-GALVESTON-HOUSTON-a real crew
Anti-immigrant? How about the rule of law? What rights do those who flout our laws and enter illegally have? They aren’t immigrants, they are lawbreakers.
How many adults?
How many of the children were traveling with adults?
They cited gang and cartel-related violence as their reason for leaving. Violence in the Northern Triangle is among the most extreme in the world.
So the gang members have no more lucrative pursuit than abusing children? Their society has no responsibility to police these actions? The criminals now make up the majority?
Anti-immigrant groups have seized on the influx of unaccompanied minors to create alarm. For example, the Houston-based anti-immigrant group Stop the Magnet recently protested outside the Mexican Consulate. Protesters held signs asserting "Illegal Aliens Are Killing America's Future," and event organizer Liz Theiss told media, "We don't know if they're carrying diseases." In another interview, she claimed, "A lot of these unaccompanied minors, 18 to 20 percent, are gang members. They're very dangerous, and we don't know what their true names are or even their health situations."
If screening for these issues is not pertinent for illegals, then we should drop these standards for legal immigration as well?
Fiorenza is archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and a board member of the Coalition for Mutual Respect.
Damn those so-called Christian clergy who support the overthrow of the Christian nation which has done more to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ than all other nations before. The first commission of Christ is to spread the Gospel, not adopt the downtrodden. Christian revival in their home countries would allow the afflicted to build a life of peace and prosperity without creating an international crisis, whereas this human invasion will only serve to overload the resources of more productive societies.
The teaching of Christ provide a basis for men to inherit the blessings of God, whereas these 'support the mob' policies, based in anti-Christian socialist doctrine, teach the non-productive to covet the earned prosperity of the productive.
You make some really good points here. Thanks.
And to support this outreach to the population of children I propose an immediate 25% wealth tax on the archdiocese of Houston.
It’s for the children.
In my experience, the fervor of a cause is inversely proportional to not having to pay for the cause.
Fiorenza: Anti-immigrant voices spread baseless myths (Refugee Industry Responds)
You call out several statements about the illegals being myths but in reading your article beyond your claim that they are myths you provide no evidence that they are. So basically it is just your “opinion” that the statement are a myth..
Only psychopaths would refuse to acknowledge the difference between legal and illegal immigration.
(Quote from Divine Comedy, a work by one of the greatest authors of all time; - if not the greatest - Dante Alighieri)
Translation into English:
“Rejoice, O Fiorenza, since thou art so great,
That over sea and land thou beatest thy wings,
And throughout Hell thy name is spread”
These words reflect the bitterness of Dante who was expatriated and never saw Florence again.
‘Fiorenza’ was the spelling of the city's name at his time. Prior to that it was ‘Florentia’. Today Florence is called ‘Firenze’ in Italian.
In any case, why would someone risk his or her life fleeing to another nation and then refuse to respect the culture and ideals of it?
Western politicians who don't believe Western ideals ought to be protected are enemies of Western Civilization.
“Western politicians who don’t believe Western ideals ought to be protected are enemies of Western Civilization.”
- I realize Fiorenza is no politician, but I think i’s safe to say he acts like one.
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