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Bishops anticipate message from pope on immigrant detention
Townhall / The Associated Press ^ | May 11, 2015

Posted on 05/11/2015 6:07:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Catholic bishops called Monday for the federal government's immigrant detention system to be dismantled, and predicted Pope Francis would address the issue when he visits the U.S. this fall.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a sobering report that tens of thousands of immigrants are housed in prison-like conditions that cause psychological harm and are inhumane and ineffective. That includes a large number of moms and little kids, because of a growth in family detention after last summer's spike in migration from Central America....

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; catholics; immigration; popefrancis

1 posted on 05/11/2015 6:07:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/in-u-s-just-9-days-refugee-tries-to-rape-woman/


2 posted on 05/11/2015 6:12:38 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No thank you.


3 posted on 05/11/2015 6:13:59 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hereby invite these bishops to go fornicate themselves.


4 posted on 05/11/2015 6:15:19 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: biggredd1

I agree. Don’t detain them. Send them home.


5 posted on 05/11/2015 6:16:38 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

prison-like conditions that cause psychological harm...

Im so grieved!


6 posted on 05/11/2015 6:29:56 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Let these bishops purchase buses and drive the illegals home for a win/win.


7 posted on 05/11/2015 6:38:51 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

USCCB has been far left for as long as I can remember.


8 posted on 05/11/2015 6:58:47 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree, we should not be detaining them for long periods of time. They should be deported as swiftly as possibe.


9 posted on 05/11/2015 6:59:24 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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...and here I thought they were co-operating because of the threat of a common enemy... Iran.


10 posted on 05/11/2015 7:10:58 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Oops... posted to wrong thread... thought it was the thread above it on the Saudi airliner being repaired in Israel.


11 posted on 05/11/2015 7:11:52 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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