[the invisib1e hand]

I don't know if this fits here, but the anti-immigration sentiments are disturbing. I've felt that leftwing agitators targeting immigrants, and it is their escapades that make the headlines. Almost all Mexican immigrants I've met on the east coast are decent people who work hard and have a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe somewhere conspicuous.

I believe that Our Lady of Guadalupe has very special intentions for these people, and that, as "immigration waves" go, they may be the best thing that happened to America in some time.

The Blessed Mother is after all Patroness of the Americas. And I am very grateful for that. I trust her protection.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I am personally very toward Central American immigration. Nations that will not welcome babies are generally obliged to welcome immigrants. Considering that we aborted 40 million American babies in the last 34 years, if they are replaced 1-for-1 with Spanish-speaking Christians from the hemispheric South, we will be very fortunte indeed, and getting far more than we deserve.

That would be lawful immigration I'm speaking of. I have very rarely heard conservatives speak out against orderly, decent, respectful, lawful immigrants. My parish has a lot of them. As for the lawbreakers, they might also someday be on the path to U.S. citizenship. That path starts in their home countries. Let them go home with our blessing and God's, and do it right next time.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That's "very favorable toward." Yeesh9, I hate tyops...

[livius]

I agree. We have aborted so many of our own that unless Our Lady sends us new Christian people, we will be overrun by Muslims just as in Europe. And then we will disappear.

I have been very distressed by some of the hostility towards Latin Americans here, and even more distressed because a lot of it is really nothing but Protestants (probably mostly elderly) expressing their hatred of Catholics. I think many of these people would actually be happy to see more Muslims come into the US - anything but Latin American Catholics.