I spoke with someone about this finally tonight. It’s nonsense.
“I spoke with someone about this finally tonight. It’s nonsense.”
Depends on what you mean by “nonsense”. It’s about to hit the fan. The useless, noneffective raids yesterday will produce an outcry of sympathy from supporters of illegal aliens... perfectly timed with the Pope’s expected message on compassion for illegal aliens. And all just in time for the protests on May 1. Coincidence, I think not.
Vatican Enters Illegal-immigration Debate
“The Vatican is helping to pay for construction of a shelter for Central Americans traveling to the United States, angering immigration-control advocates. The Pontifical Commission for Latin America donated at least $20,000 in January to help erect a $120,000 building for the Brothers on the Path refuge in the southern city of Ixtepec. The number of Central Americans crossing illegally is high. Critics accused the Vatican of fostering illegal immigration to enrich the church. Guatemalans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans and other Central Americans are becoming a larger percentage of the migrants crossing the U.S. border. The Brothers on the Path charity owns two warehouses and adjacent land on the isthmus, where it provides food, bathrooms and a place to rest for as many as 1,000 people a night, said Alejandro Solalinde, a priest and project director. Pope Benedict has said he intends to discuss immigration issues with President Bush and empathizes with families split by migration. But immigratiion-control advocates said the refuge encourages migration, and they called it an affront to Americans worried about illegal border crossings.”....
....”It’s not only provocative, it’s sinful,” said Al Garza, executive director of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corp. “What they’re really saying is, ‘Look, even though the United States has laws, we’re going to help you break the laws to realize your dream.’ By funding the refuge, the Vatican is “undertaking policies that had the effect of facilitating illegal immigration into this country,” said Jack Martin, director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “There is definitely a particular interest on the part of the Catholic Church that derives from the fact that the majority of illegal immigration into the country is from Catholic countries,” Martin said. “It helps fill the pews, it helps fill the coffers, it helps fill the recruits to the priesthood
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