Posted on 09/23/2015 4:26:24 PM PDT by artichokegrower
A 5-year-old girl in a brilliantly colored dress and braids who was handed up to Pope Francis for a blessing during a parade in Washington on Wednesday morning urged the pontiff to give his blessing to immigration reform and push lawmakers to act.
Sophie Cruz, of South Gate, California, delivered a bright yellow T-shirt and a letter expressing wishes that her mother and father and millions of others who are in the U.S. illegally are allowed to remain in the country. Her trip was sponsored by an advocacy group.
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So does Senor Bush, candidate por El Presidente.
Or why I don’t feel safe going for a stroll around my own neighborhood that I’ve lived in for over 4 decades.
From 2014:
“Young Jersey Vargas arrived at the Vatican Wednesday morning carrying a cloth handkerchief her mother sewed with the words “Nest of Love” across the front.
The 10-year-old girl's hope was to be able to hand it directly to none other than the pope himself.
Despite a note from Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez that got Vargas and a group of southern California immigration activists a general audience with Pope Francis, in reality there was still a slim chance that the young girl would actually get close enough to get a good look at leader of the Catholic Church, let alone be able to ask him to help her father, who faces deportation.
But yet there he was, standing right in front of her.
The talkative and self-assured Vargas quickly handed Pope Francis the engraved good-luck charm she had brought from California and received a blessing and kiss from the pope, before pleading her family’s case to the pontiff.
The unlikely gathering took place just one day before Pope Francis was scheduled to receive President Barack Obama.
I think he’ll talk to President Obama about it because it’s important to stop deporting people and breaking up families.
- Jersey Vargas
“I told him to pray for my family and to ask the president to stop deportation because it's separating my family,” Vargas told Fox News Latino in a telephonic interview from Rome following her papal visit. “He blessed me and told me he would bring this up with President Obama.”..”
There's your connection. Wonder who this 'advocacy group' is and where they get their $.
Amen...yep.
As Trump said, they’re not sending us their best (and brightest).
All those posts and you missed REPREATING??? I understand “load bearing” but repreating - nope!!
It was meant as a joke and hardly worth the effort of several posts and copying/pasting! Oh! well, today is another day!
I have said the same thing but with the realization this Pope cares less about what most all US citizens care about. He is a robed communist set on doing what Germany and Japan did not accomplish. I believe that the early POTUSAs would not have given this man the time of day. Given enough time though many little bugs can bring down big trees. For this man to bring his south of the border influence to the US is something the Founders didn’t see or predict.
““...car crashy...”
Every time my right leg aches, I know who to thank.”
Like you......
Having been the lucky guy to have been smashed into by an illegal immigrant on 2 different occasions, I can promise you #3 will be in ICU, and NOT from a car crash either!
God Bless!
“...The stunt has been organized by immigration advocacy group Hermandad Mexicana Transnacional, in Los Angeles.
Alicia Flores, executive director of La Hermandad, chose Sophie to approach the pope after a young girl was able to approach the pope in Rome in a similar incident, reported the Washington Post.
She and her family were flown out to Washington as part of a group of six children and 19 adults, with the hope of delivering their message on immigration...”
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