“Today in our country, the outsiders and the excluded, those whose dignity is threatened daily, are the millions of immigrants living and working in the Unites States like Liliana, people “whose wages we have underpaid, whose provisions for healthcare we have resented, despite their back-breaking work to provide for our dinner tables,”
If he and the rest of the American Catholic Bishops had as much concern about “human dignity”, as they claim, and had equal concern for the rational obligation to distinguish between “choice” and “necessity”, as in why and how someone chooses to be here illegally versus legally, then they would take their moral “concern” and the Pope with them, to a permanent Catholic encampment IN MEXICO to PERMANENTLY demand the “Catholic” society of Mexico QUIT CREATING THE CONDITIONS THAT CAUSE IT’S CITIZENS TO CHOOSE TO BREAK U.S. IMMIGRATION LAWS.
The poem written for the Statue of Liberty, extended the idea of Liberty NOT simply to “the huddled masses”, but directly and intentionally to “the huddled masses YEARNING TO BE FREE. The people of Mexico have has much political freedom as we do. It is their Catholic society, in Mexico that needs reform, so that its citizens will choose to stay there instead of invading this land illegally. That is where the American Catholic Bishops need to take their “moral” concerns. (1st remove the tree from thine own eye).
Good point about “yearning to be free.” This means accepting the American deal as it stands, not trying to cheat it or trying to enchain themselves and everyone else in yet another kind of slavery.
“If he and the rest of the American Catholic Bishops had as much concern about “human dignity”, as they claim, and had equal concern for the rational obligation to distinguish between “choice” and “necessity”, as in why and how someone chooses to be here illegally versus legally, then they would take their moral “concern” and the Pope with them, to a permanent Catholic encampment IN MEXICO to PERMANENTLY demand the “Catholic” society of Mexico QUIT CREATING THE CONDITIONS THAT CAUSE IT’S CITIZENS TO CHOOSE TO BREAK U.S. IMMIGRATION LAWS.”
Ooh! Good one!