When the Pope says that immigrants have their “responsibilities” as well as rights, what do you think he meant by that? Do you think that sanctioned law breaking?
“When the Pope says that immigrants have their “responsibilities” as well as rights, what do you think he meant by that? Do you think that sanctioned law breaking?”
IF he really and truly believed that those “responsibilities” INCLUDED the responsibility for an ILLEGAL immigrant to return home, HE WOULD SAY SO DIRECTLY. He never does.
But, he evades any distinction between LEGAL and ILLEGAL immigrant when he CHOOSES to, to direct the direct moral obligations of the “host” nation(s) to certain requirements un-specifically, indistinctly to “migrants” or “immigrants” period.
The combination of specifics and lack of specifics makes it clear that in terms of the “host” nation he sees no moral distinction in what the host should do, once it has become the “migrant’s” or “immigrant’s” host nation.
Quit asking for people to interpret what an indirect statement is supposed to be assumed to mean and start addressing the fact that the specifics said to be in your assumption have in fact NOT been said, DIRECTLY.
They are not said DIRECTLY because neither the Roman Catholic Pope nor most of the Catholic hierarchy are willing to address, publicly, their stance on what those DIRECT meanings of “respect for the law” might be.
They want to leave those implications assumed, or not assumed in the ears of the listener so that they can sit on the fence on the direct issues like “amnesty” and the moral obligation for the illegal migrant to go home. If that were not the case, they would direct the specific issues SPECIFICALLY.