Americans care about their kids, too. That’s why they don’t want their kids’ schools to be dangerous, overcrowded and ineffective. They don’t want their kids to be beaten up by illegal gang members, or to have to wait 18 hours in the emergency room, (which happened to a friend of mine recently,) or not even be able to FIND an emergency room because illegals have shut them down. Americans don’t want their kids to get diseases that were formerly eradicated in this country...or to be hit by an unlicensed, uninsured, and/or drunk illegal driver...or to be unable to get a job because they don’t speak Spanish...and on and on. So the Archbishop can spare us his phony sob story about criminal invader parents. In fact, he can stuff it.
There were a number of FReepers who lauded his appointment (replacing Cardinal Roger Mahony in Los Angeles) due to Gomez's membership in Opus Dei, characterized as a radically-orthodox Catholic group.
IMHO, coming to the defense of criminal lawbreakers doesn't fit with the teachings of Christ. I have real doubts about the orthodoxy of Archbishop Gomez.
I understand your worries. But they are equally human too. It’s a SHAME things are hard everywhere.