"if millions of AMericans kids and spouses have their families uprooted, destroyed, or torn apart."
Excuse me, but "American" people wont get uprooted.
The people who will get deported (not uprooted, deported) will be *NON*Americans. All others can stay of go by choice. The Govt isnt forcing any family apart. I suppose the correct Catholic solution would be for the family to return, intact, to the country of origin.
Any such change is just the consequence of people's actions to defy the law.
Now, if Americans have gone into family arrangement with illegal aliens, then they will have to deal with the consequences. The lesson needs to be: If you marry an illegal alien, you may be required to live where it is legal for them to live.
(That being said, it is easy to get such spouses 'legalized'.)
"The church cannot talk with integrity on the dignity of the..."
They certainly cannot talk with integrity when they espouse things that just are simply wrong and false.
This position paper is mostly drivel. I noted several errors in fact, and that is just glancing through a few paragraphs. Beyond that, the assertions about consequences to legalization are completely Pollyanna-ish, at variance with the clear history of the debacle of the 1986 amnesty.
It's painful that its so bad.
I am not sure how a child consented to a illegal family arrangement. Its beyond me why the rights and more importantly the well being of millions of American children is given no attention or dismissed. They are citizens of this country and so far it seems no one gives a big damn if they are put into foster care or sent into poverty into Mexico if they have to go with their parents. Who is speaking up for them? Why have their lives become of no revelance in this debate?
It is beyond me this deport all policy with no exceptions.