Proof of U.S. citizenship is retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless Nazi and Soviet-style repression
Posted on 04/20/2010 12:41:31 PM PDT by Zakeet
The head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese has condemned a proposed Arizona crackdown on illegal immigrants, saying it encourages people to turn on each other in Nazi- and Soviet-style repression.
The measure wrongly assumes that Arizonans "will now shift their total attention to guessing which Latino-looking or foreign-looking person may or may not have proper documents," Cardinal Roger Mahony said in his blog Sunday — a day before Arizona's Legislature sent the immigration enforcement measure to the Republican governor.
Gov. Jan Brewer has not indicated whether she will sign the bill, which creates a new state misdemeanor of willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document. It would also require officers to determine people's immigration status if there's reason to suspect they're in the country illegally.
Arizona has an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants. Proponents of the bill say it was prompted by concerns over the cost of providing services to illegal immigrants and by the slaying of an Arizona rancher near the Mexican border this month. Authorities believe he was fatally shot by an illegal immigrant possibly connected to a drug smuggling cartel.
Republican Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce, who sponsored the bill, has said it will take handcuffs off police and put them on violent criminals.
But Mahony, whose archdiocese has a huge Hispanic immigrant population, said the Arizona Legislature was passing "the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law."
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Proof of U.S. citizenship is retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless Nazi and Soviet-style repression
The Pope should fire this creep cardinal. The libtard American Catholic Church will never see a penny from me.
I remember when the Catholic Church fought against invasion at Lepanto and Vienna.
The Cardinal is misguided.
Ping!
Don Corleone Mahoney.
I hope this passes so Arizona can go about taking out the trash that the Federal government won’t.
There’s no law breaker Mahoney doesn’t love. Of course we know he protected pervert, child-diddling priests. Now he’s protecting illegals and has fought every effort to have immigration laws enforced. I’d say good riddance to this horrible man, but his replacement is a Hispanic and likely just as much for letting the illegals have free reign as Mahoney is.
One more year.
Mahony turns 75 next year, then he gets to go "bye-bye". And good riddance. His replacement has already been chosen.
Priests, bishops, cardinals - more and more I am getting fed up with my clergy making stupid comments. Maybe we do need an ‘American Catholic Church’ after all.
Mahoney is no longer in charge of the LA Diocese.
Does anyone remember the Public Service Announcements on TV in the 1960’s advising legal aliens that they were require by federal law to go to the post office and register annually?
Caesar=Caesar....God=God! Wash...rinse...repeat!
So how much did that red hat COST you, cardinal?
What is Charles Krauthammer doing with this bunch?
Yes, but if the pews are empty collection plate revenues will drop. Follow the $$$.
An "auxiliary bishop" is a subordinate. The new bishop was appointed as a "coadjutor" ... he is not a subordinate, he is a designated replacement and can reasonably be viewed as having the job of holding the ordinary bishop's leash.
Governor Brewer is now pussy-footing around to determine whether or not she should allow a pocket veto to take her off the hook.
The cardinal should mind his own business and go back to playing with little boys in the back room.
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