[Polybius]

This church needs to loose it non-profit status for taking a political stand and choosing to ignore the law of the land.

Why does everyone get their short in a knot about the Catholic Church providing "humanitarian aid" to illegal aliens but, when it comes to actually doing something practical about illegal aliens, SUCH AS IMPOSING DRACONIAN FINES AND PRISON TERMS ON ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS, all you hear is the sound of chirping crickets?

The fact of the matter is that Congress is populated by political whores who gladly take campaign contributions from illegal employer lobbyists in return for ignoring the root cause of why illegal aliens come here in the first place.

As a result, the issue is transformed into "the criminalization of humanitarian aid", the illegal aliens still have illegal jobs, the Bishop bloviates about the poor, the Congressman bloviates about how he is controlling the border, the illegal employer laughs all the way to the bank and America continues to get flooded with illegal aliens while the rest of us argue about the Catholic Church.

[Racehorse]

. . . it comes to actually doing something practical about illegal aliens, SUCH AS IMPOSING DRACONIAN FINES AND PRISON TERMS ON ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS . . .

Exactly right.  Nothing infuriates me more than listening to President Bush continue to repeat the lie that immigrants are needed to do the jobs Americans will not.  Employers are the root of the problem.

At the same time, I do favor some kind of Guest Worker Program which is pegged to the availability of labor.  Can't hire enough American or Green Card immigrant carpenters?  Recruit temporary Guest Workers.  I'm fine with that.  Need someone with special skills or someone with clearly superior technical skills?  Recruit a temporary Guest Worker.  And, I'm all in favor of providing those Guest Workers with a reasonable and achievable path to citizenship, especially and particularly if they have an "immediate" family member serving in our Armed Forces.

[Conservative4Ever]

My comment applies to any recognized religion who used the pulpit for political activism. IMHO we should first close the borders; second,fine employers who employ illegals; third, remove illegals to their own country to go back to the end of the line.