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Pope Francis Rips Capitalism, American Immigration Policy at Mexican Border
Breitbart ^ | February 18, 2016 | By Ben Shapiro

Posted on 02/18/2016 10:36:41 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Pope Francis, apparently desperate to reach out to the Catholic Church’s growing base in Latin America, spent the day slapping Americans in the face from across the US-Mexico border.

In Ciudad Juarez, one of the most violent cities in the Western Hemisphere thanks to the drug cartels, the pope walked up a ramp covered in flowers toward a cross “erected… in memory of migrants who have perished trying to reach the United States just a stone’s throw away,” according to Reuters.

Funny, he never did that while visiting Cuba to pay tribute to those who died attempting to escape that Communist hellhole. He reserved his spite for a nation with one of the most generous immigration policies on the planet.

The pope then blessed three more small crosses, at which “shoes of migrants who died” were laid. “We cannot deny the humanitarian crisis,” Pope Francis intoned. “Each step, a journey laden with grave injustices: the enslaved, the imprisoned and extorted; so many of these brothers and sisters of ours are the consequence of trafficking in human beings…Injustice is radicalized in the young; they are ‘cannon fodder,’ persecuted and threatened when they try to flee the spiral of violence and the hell of drugs. Then there are the many women unjustly robbed of their lives.”

He concluded, “Let us together ask our God for the gift of conversion, the gift of tears, let us ask him to give us open hearts like the Ninevites, open to his call heard in the suffering faces of countless men and women. No more death! No more exploitation!

This came shortly after the pope said that capitalism cut against God, and that God would punish “slave drivers of our days” supposedly exploiting workers, adding, “The flow of capital cannot decide the flow of people.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alieninvasion; aliens; america; borders; bridges; capitalism; communist; culture; elections; francis; illegalimmigration; karlmarx; language; lightenupfrancis; mexico; pope; socialism; trump
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1 posted on 02/18/2016 10:36:41 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

This pope leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.


2 posted on 02/18/2016 10:38:24 AM PST by falcon99
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To: Jim Robinson

This pope is not a friend of freedom and free nations.


3 posted on 02/18/2016 10:39:17 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: falcon99

I don’t pay any attention to him. I’m Lutheran.


4 posted on 02/18/2016 10:39:21 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Jim Robinson

The Pope prefers bridges over Walls—I guess to facilitate the hoards of illegal aliens crossing into the US. You woild think he would see what is happening at his own doorstep in Europe with the flood of refugees. They are building walls in Europe today like crazy.


5 posted on 02/18/2016 10:39:28 AM PST by kabar
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To: Jim Robinson

I don’t recall the Constitution saying anything about the Pope being the fourth branch of government.


6 posted on 02/18/2016 10:40:04 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: DoughtyOne

The Pope is not a friend of the Rule of Law and national sovereignty.


7 posted on 02/18/2016 10:40:14 AM PST by kabar
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To: Jim Robinson

Wall surrounding the Pope.

8 posted on 02/18/2016 10:40:24 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: falcon99

He babbles of Jesus but means Karl Marx.


9 posted on 02/18/2016 10:40:43 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: falcon99

2 Thessalonians 2:1-3? The Great Falling Away and Apostasy.


10 posted on 02/18/2016 10:40:57 AM PST by FiddlePig
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To: Jim Robinson

According to Drudge, El Pope also says birth control is justifiable given the Zika virus...


11 posted on 02/18/2016 10:41:08 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (SC - Feb. 13, 2015 .....BREAKING.... Vulgarian Resistance begins attack on the GOPe Death Star.....)
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To: Jim Robinson

These statements are making me feel very Sola Scriptura and Huguenot today.


12 posted on 02/18/2016 10:41:33 AM PST by Psalm 144 ("Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded" - James Madison)
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To: Jim Robinson

This Pope is a pinhead.

He’s Argentinian, ain’t he? They got Zika virus there...

Just sayin’...


13 posted on 02/18/2016 10:43:41 AM PST by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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Interesting times...


14 posted on 02/18/2016 10:43:58 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Jim Robinson

50% of American Catholics a very conservative. This must be their darkest hour.


15 posted on 02/18/2016 10:44:00 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Psalm 144

Nothing the Pope is saying has anything to do with Catholicism.


16 posted on 02/18/2016 10:44:15 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Jim Robinson

Bad timing for Marco Rubio. Somebody needs to say it: Marco Rubio, where does your loyalty lie, the United States or with the Pope?


17 posted on 02/18/2016 10:44:22 AM PST by GLDNGUN
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is there still a bullet proof pope mobile?

ah well...shrug. not for thee, but good for me.


18 posted on 02/18/2016 10:44:34 AM PST by dadfly
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To: Jim Robinson

Illegal immigration

Illegal immigration is the migration of people across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. Some countries have millions of illegal immigrants.

very few Americans are against a reasonable amount of legal immigration, regardless of race, nationality or ethnicity, but most Americans are against any amount of illegal immigration, regardless of race, nationality or ethnicity.

In Biting the Hand That Feeds You, Congressman Steve King of Iowa noted:

What would the May 1, 2006, illegal immigration boycott look like without illegal immigration?

The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise would die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day.

Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals.

There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines, which plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of methamphetamines that day, by 80%.

Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases, to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals.

Eight American children would not suffer the horror as victims of sex crimes.

I’ll bet you did not see Congressman King’s comments on the evening news.

Let’s start with a broad summary on how illegal immigration is or can affect you personally. Here are just some of the negative side affects of illegal immigration:

easy conduit for terrorists entering the USA

massive escalation in crime

surge in foreign national prisoners to support for years

increases Balkanization of US

increases multiculturalism/segregation/divisiveness instead of the American melting pot

increases desire for Aztlan (reclaiming SW states for Mexico)

increasing number of traffic accidents

main contributor to surging US population

dramatic impact on society and infrastructure, including education

destruction of fragile ecosystems in American SW

main cause of emergency rooms and hospitals closing as well as service cut backs

introduction of third world diseases

increased welfare costs

massive costs to society - over and above contributions


19 posted on 02/18/2016 10:44:36 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ("The Force Awakens"!!! TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP!!! 100%)
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To: Jim Robinson

My guess is George Soros bought his election and the removal of his predeccessor. He is an out and out socialist and globalist. Can’t stand the guy.


20 posted on 02/18/2016 10:44:41 AM PST by ZULU (If you support Stokes or Obama, you are too stupid to own a gun.)
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