[The Cuban]

You probably consider Bl. Father Serra to be an illegal immigrant.

[MarineBrat]

You’ve said some hurtful things to me sir. Since it’s our first communications I’ll have to use that to paint what picture I envision you with.

I don’t know who Father Serra is. Has he illegally entered the USA? I choose not to massage reality in these matters. Illegal has a legal definition and I use it. That is your answer.

And in another reply you insinuated I’m a heretic.

>>BTW that foreign priest is the Pope.

No, it’s Father mli-bldon’t-spmeak-blEngrish-zland-mli-reeedz-mii-slermlon-flumbla-plaper.

The Pope isn’t a foreigner in my country because he is where he belongs. And he probably speaks decent English as well, using proper diction and enunciation.

[ansel12]

What would he be an illegal immigrant to?

He never set foot in the United States, and had zero to do with it’s creation.

[norton]

I consider him to have been part of a military campaign aimed at expanding Spanish empire. The goals were to aggrandize the empire:
Controlling territory, not necessarily settling it,
Obtaining resources (assets)for shipment back to Spain,
and doing it with local labor, "spreading the faith" meant slavery, cultural destruction, and cheap labor.

Settlement meant huge land grants to former soldiers who then exercised the same practices.

I don't claim that tribal culture in Cal. was all nature friendly and peaceful, or that we did right by the Cherokees, but Sainthood is a stretch.