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But what about Tancredo's comments and Pope Benedict's actual quote?

If you're insisting to me that the Pope hasn't simply mirrored the major media's tendency to omit the word "illegal" when discussing illegal immigration, and if the "welcome the immigrants" wasn't in any way related to amnesty, and if instead, the Pope was not attempting to make any comment at all about our policies on illegal immigration - well, sure if all those 'ifs' were true, and if Tom had absolutely no other reason to think otherwise, you could make the case that Tom was overreacting.

However, I'd like to consult an English bookie about the odds on all of that before I concede all those 'ifs'...so let me get back to you.

The alternative is to assume that the Pope was talking solely about legal immigration (and too naive to realize that illegal immigration is such a hot-button issue that any statement on immigration is going to be parsed for its relevance to illegal immigration)...whereupon I would respond to the Pope's comments thusly: "Duh."