Posted on 03/05/2012 11:12:02 AM PST by moonshinner_09
The recent article about the expansion into Baltimore of the Department of Homeland Security's program to crackdown on illegal immigrants ("Immigrants, city fear divide over status checks," Feb. 26) makes clear the need for real immigration reform. Programs such as Secure Communities, regardless of aim, are succeeding in spreading fear and division and in threatening the stability of the family. Moreover, the program is altering the relationship between federal immigration enforcement and local law enforcement.
The Catholic Church's concern for the welfare of migrants stems from its belief that immigration is ultimately a humanitarian issue because it impacts the basic human rights and dignity of the human person. The Church believes this dignity is undermined by this program's alleged channeling of immigrants into the criminal justice system through racial profiling and pre-textual arrests for the purpose of vetting them for their immigration status. Because Secure Communities is operated at the point of arrest, rather than post-conviction, it casts a wide net over virtually any immigrant who has come into contact with the criminal justice system.
In other parts of the country where Secure Communities is being operated, some law enforcement officers have denounced the program because it creates a lack of trust between immigrant communities and local police, affecting their ability to investigate crime, assist crime victims and ensure the safety of those communities
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As a practicing, believing Catholic, I truly wish The Church would shut up about our domestic political policies.
Isn’t it ironic that the Catholic Church is in a tizzy about being forced to do something by the government while they’re simultaneously telling the government what to do about illegal immigration.
I am sorry too and I am Catholic, but I can not make myself line up with such radical charity and radical kindness that continually points its finger at only the United States, holding only the US responsible for the deliverance of human dignity to illelgals, law breakers and border crossers, but NEVER Mexico, and certainly never the illegal.
The good Bishops who always get the press always fault the US and totally IGNORE every jot and tittle of the clear catachesis of the Catholic Church that just as clearly instructs respect for the law of nations, as well as human dignity.
The narrowness of these Bishops is more akin to Marxism than disguised as charity and kindness. There is just no dialogue with these bishops, it’s like you hit a wall.
The Church is rightfully fighting the intrusion into Church doctrine by the government, but the equally illegal intrusion of illegals onto our soil and the burdens they place on the backs of Americans, in regard to taxes and provisions, is staggering.
I love the Church. I do not love the socialist/Marxist leaning element romping unchecked within the Church. Catholics know exactly who they are too, and will fight their advances.
Pelosi is a measuring stick. If she is FOR it, you know you’re in the evil camp, and up to no good.
Great minds think alike? I said the same thing! Next post!
LOL!
I am Catholic and I don’t believe the Church should be worrying about this when they have a bigger worry ontheir hands with Obamacare.
The Bishops helped Obama shove this Obamacare mess down our throats and now they have been bitten by it. Perhaps they should spend a bit more time thinking about consequences before shoving ILLEGAL immigrants down our throats.
Apparently they haven't considered the consequences of illegal immigration on healthcare costs, either. Where do they think the money will come from? I think some of them may be marxists at heart, but most of them are probably well-meaning, though naive.
Pope Benedict XVI: “At the same time, states have the right to regulate migration flows and to defend their own frontiers, always guaranteeing the respect due to the dignity of each and every human person...”
At the same time that Catholics are benefiting from support of non-catholics over mandated insurance requirements (right to life), this activist dolt publishes a pro-illegal alien screed guaranteed to p#ss off about half the people who were otherwise in their corner. Well, at least it ticked me off - just like the L.A. diocese housing illegals did.
Hint to Mr. Rozanski; opposition to contraception is a fundamental element of Catholic theology but sponsoring the invasion of a neighbor is NOT...unless the Pope calls for another crusade.
I am not a Catholic, but taking everything into consideration, the catholic church’s stance on no birth control is is scriptural. God did say, to go forth and multiply. He had good reason, as we are finding out, for Christians and other r non-Islasmists are being outnumbered becuase the Mormons and Islamists even have (had) multiple wives so they can sire more children, while abortion, and contraception takes millions of non- Islamists every year! I shudder to think of how our grandchildren and their children will be iduced to live non-Chrstian lives. under sharia Law. Without the living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, there can be no America for our descendants. How can we allow this to happen?
I have no doubt they are well meaning.
I am well meaning too,BUT,there must be limits.
Legal immigration establish’s these limits.
Illegal immigration ignores these limits and is the cause of great problems.
Hispanic gangs in cities, drunken uninsured drivers on our highways, anchor babies, costs to hospitals for uninsured.Illegals used as Mules to bring in drugs.
Just a few of those problems.
I wish everyone could live the good life, but destroying the economics of a country will lead to us all living like a third world country, and sooner or later those who work decide that if others can get away with not working they might as well go on the dole too.Especially those who are working for low wages.
If the Establishment is working to import Democrat voters, they may be working at cross purposes, for most Latinos are people of faith. Of course the Muslim element, the enemy of our way of life in mind are invading us as well! What a dilemma!
Well said.
You’re not alone. I’m not Catholic but have been defending them over the contraception dust-up. I even started an account at The Chicago Tribune to get into a virtual brawl over it.
This really chaps my hide.
Just a little blurb about the brawl at the Tribune....there are an awful lot of liberals subscribed to that paper that don’t give two hoots about Constitutional rights. They only care about the rights that they perceive to exist. But then, we all knew that. It surely was on parade a couple of days ago.
Right ...
Absolutely.
Those miserable, worthless papists should just STFU about womens' choice, and reproductive rights, and gays' civil right to marry ...
Keep their dirty litle fingers out of our SACRED American domestic political policies.
Oh ...
Wait ...
Doesn't sound so ironic after all, now does it?
It isn't a free speech issue when you wish to impose your desires and beliefs upon others.
The desire is to implement "social justice" on others through the heavy hand of government and that is neither right nor proper.
Please, don’t judge the Church by its infiltrators. There are those of us who know who these people are and are fighting it.
Check out upthread, if you will. #8 is correct.
I remind us all that many will fall, and keep falling, until there is none left, but the “remnant”.
All legislation is imopsing one set of desires and beliefs on others.
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