While the Catholic bishops sell property bought and paid for by the laity in order to pay for pedophile priests' law suits, they are undermining the social strata by pushing illegal aliens into the work force of this country. Maybe they think they will have more money in the Sunday collection. Thinking Catholics have ignored the collection plates.
I'm a thinking Catholic and I give as much as I possibly can every month to the Church.
Whatever one thinks of the USCCB on immigration legislation, it is ---how shall I say? --- at least counterintuitive to argue that the Bishops are trying to increase their collections by siding with the lowest-income day-laborers, dishwashers and motel-bathroom-cleaners. Income-maximizing clergy are usually excoriated for siding with the rich, not with the poor.