Posted on 11/23/2014 2:32:40 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Calling it “a major step forward,” the U.S. Jesuits, the Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, and the Kino Border Initiative, a bi-national border ministry, have added their voices to Catholic groups welcoming President Obama’s executive order to provide immigration relief. They added that there remains much work to be done.
The Obama announcement Nov. 20 offers temporary relief from deportation for as many as five million of our people. The groups said they were pleased with the initiative.
“At the same time we acknowledge that millions more families will continue to suffer under the constant specter of family separation caused by our broken immigration system, which can only be permanently resolved through positive, humane and practical legislation.”
“Through our ministries, we witness on a daily basis the tragic consequences of our nation’s current immigration laws and policies,” the statement reads.
“As Jesuits, we assess each immigration policy by whether it adheres to the Catholic and American value of promoting and affirming human dignity.”
“The President has exercised his constitutional discretion to prioritize immigration enforcement resources, while offering a process by which some of the 11 million undocumented may apply for a temporary reprieve. Meanwhile, Congressional leaders must complete the urgent and necessary work of permanently fixing our unjust and broken immigration system.”
“To be sure, the President’s policy change is a major step forward, and we celebrate this move toward recognizing the worth and dignity of up to five million of our brothers, sisters, parishioners, friends, colleagues and companions. However, this is only a first step, and we will continue to struggle for a day when all men, women and children who live within our communities are welcomed as full members of our nation.”
We also are tentatively optimistic about the President’s commitment to end the problematic “Secure Communities” program. We hope that the new Prioritized Enforcement Program will avoid the pitfalls of Secure Communities by allowing states and localities the freedom to implement the program in ways that respect the civil rights and due process protections of community residents.
The statement continued:
We also express our sadness and disappointment that the Administration has failed to seize the opportunity to increase oversight, accountability, transparency and justice in its implementation of border policy. A genuine understanding of the realities faced by border communities will yield the best policy. We contend that our borders are best secured and our communities are best kept safe by humane, transparent, and accountable practices, which foster trust between border communities and law enforcement entities.Law enforcement agencies like Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must take local community input into account for true security and respect for human rights to become a reality along the U.S./Mexico border. Rhetoric and actions that demonize and marginalize border communities fail to acknowledge the vibrant cultural and economic contributions of those who live and work on our Southern border.
In his speech last night, the President conflated the arrival of Central American children fleeing violence with a border that requires more militarized enforcement. We reject this assessment. The forced migration of children and families from Central America can rightly be attributed to the tragic and violent circumstances facing children, youth and families in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, not to “lax” border policy. As such this situation is best resolved not through boots on the border but through serious policy choices that responsibly address the corruption and violence that have destroyed the social fabric of these nations and caused our Central American neighbors to hemorrhage displaced children, youth, mothers and asylum seekers. We cannot “enforce” our way out of the humanitarian situation in Central America’s Northern Triangle.
We urge our elected officials to work together to craft a viable immigration system. Our leaders must place family unity, human dignity, mercy and justice, transparency and accountability at the center of this crucial debate.
I am old fashioned.
I think American sovereignty,respect for our laws and safety should come first.
The feel good stuff would be secondary to those goals. -tom
Jesuits are by design non-conforming.
Check to see if they’ve received any large grants from the feds recently. They seem to be paying a lot for cooperation lately.
What we need to do as Republicans is to make sure that the illegals coming across our borders are told LOUDLY that we Repubs welcome them. This will dispel any desire for them to vote for Dems. Trap Obama with his own tricks.
We shouldn’t open our borders with a country that is controlled by drug cartels.
For Pete’s sake, they’re Jesuits. What else would you expect?
What do the Jesuits get out of this?
OK churches....YOU pay for all illegal needs! All the food stamps, section 8, unemployment, welfare, medicaide, etc. YOU PAY!!!!! Sell all those damn treasures in Vatican City and give the monies to the illegals. Pay for the BS you spout.
Massive Jerry Brown for President..campaign contributions?
Obama’s “How to invade a country using PC”
1. Create a program called the Unacompanied Alien Children Project years before the invasion to fund facilitators. Sounds humanitarian and will appeal to people as a good thing. It’s for the children, right?
2. Get large religious organizations with lots of housing, shelters, food banks, etc...to sign on and provide assistance to the illegal immigrants that will be incoming by giving them enormous multimillion dollar grants coming from taxpayer funds under the UACP
3. Get Latino organizations to demand amnesty.
4. Get the MSM to focus on the plight of the poor children in Mexico and Central American countries. Get the social media activists to talk about it online everywhere.
5. Anyone that opposes the entry of illegal immigrants will be declared as unsympathetic by the MSM and social media. It doesn’t matter if they increase your taxes by allowing them entry because it’s “for the children, right?” Paint the opposers as evil and especially white because that packs the most impact.
6. Import one or two illegals in at a time and let them get situated so you can send or the rest of their families later (most Ilegal immigrant families consist of 7; a mother and father and 5 children so for every two you import initially you will get. 5 more on their way).
7. Sell the invasion as merely trying to put family members back together while continuing to stream the one parent and their child with them so they can continue the stream of illegal aliens over the border and keep the chain going.
8. Paint all persons who are against immigration as people who area keeping families apart.
9. Repeat ad nauseum until the country is completely bankrupt and overrun by illegal immigrants who will ensure the destruction of the nation so that it looks just like where they came from.
“What do the Jesuits get out of this?”
$$$$
Of course they do — it keeps the churches full. More money for them.
He wants an immigration bill, give it to him. OPEN BORDERS, NO BENEFITS. The bill would include the following provisions:
1- you are welcome into the US. There is a 10 year wait for citizenship during which you must have a clean record.
2- you are entitled to no publicly funded benefits-—no free health care, no food stamps, no subsidized housing, no public ed for your kids.
It is essentially the same immigration policy in place during the great immigration waves at the end of the 19th century. And it worked.
As if this kind of supposed support makes an illegal edict ok, and should be accepted.
There seems to be continuous media effort to normalize this highly controversial act, and soothe public opinion.
Next time a Jesuit complains about abortion, tell him to call his new messiah, Obama, the Great Aborter.
I am beginning to become irate do with the Catholic Church.
They need to open all their monestaries and give the Church’s money - all the money the Catholic Church collects in the US and give it to the illegals.
In short it’s easy to be generous with someone else’s money and labor - it’s like theft - and that’s a form of evil.
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