Posted on 11/26/2013 12:45:35 PM PST by moonshinner_09
The bishops of several dioceses in the southwestern US and Mexico today released a strongly worded open letter which stresses the need for immigration reform, and a program which will reunite families divided by illegal immigration, 1200 WOAI news reports.
"We border bishops believe that what it happening to the immigrant family in the United States is an offense against God and human conscience," San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller said in releasing the pastoral letter, called 'Family Beyond Borders.'
The letter says that not only is immigration reform the moral course of action, it says it is a 'misperception' that most immigrants arrive in the United States largely to collect welfare benefits. The pastoral letter says between one half and three quarters of all undocumented immigrations pay state and federal taxes, pay into Medicare and Social Security, and losing them would cost the U.S. economy nearly $9 billion a year in lost agricultural productivity alone.
But the letter saves its strongest language for House Republicans, who are being pressured by 'Tea Party' aligned conservative groups to reject immigration reform.
"They should no longer feel threatened with losing an election, just because they helped to make our immigration laws instruments of mercy and compassion," the Archbishop said.
(Excerpt) Read more at woai.com ...
Yep reunite them alright. Right back in the country they came from.
Border Bishops Call for Immigration Reform, Repatriation of Families
-there fixed it
They obey their father; the father of all lies. It is clear that these "bishops" do not know
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
nor worship the creator of the universe.
these bishops are arguing for anchor babies under pre1996 law. Under the old law “custody followed the CHILD”.
under the current law custody goes with the parents. The citizen child goes with the parents and is free to return as an adult.
Atheist Priest are very real and a very real problem.
Why can’t they “reunite” in their own country, Mexico???
That sounds like a corporate management failure.
The want to import the very people who will give the Democrats the power to destroy their Church - nutty!
Migration separates families, sometimes permanently. The stories are legion. Military service took me away from Southern California in 1973. Marriage and career choices have kept me in the east since. Would a compassionate government relocate my brother’s family here or mine there?
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