Posted on 12/23/2010 8:10:12 AM PST by Alex Murphy
Washington D.C., Dec 22, 2010 / 07:50 pm (CNA).- Although the controversial immigration DREAM Act failed to pass through the Senate last week, the support that the bill garnered in the House was enough to make Archbishop Jose Gomez, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration, “confident” that the legislation will succeed in the near future.
Despite the U.S. bishops endorsing the the DREAM Act – a bill that would grant citizenship to many children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents – the measure was defeated in the U.S. Senate on Dec. 18 after supporters failed to muster enough votes to block a filibuster.
Sixty votes were needed to end the filibuster, but proponents could only gather 55, with 41 senators voting to prevent the bill from coming up for a vote before the full Senate. The U.S. House of Representatives, however, had earlier passed the bill on a 216-198 vote.
The act's full title is the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act. It would have allowed young people who entered the United States before the age of 16 to apply for legal permanent residence and eventual citizenship, as long as they finish high school, have no criminal record, have lived in the U.S. for more than five years and complete two years of college or military service.
While Democrats largely supported the measure, Republicans had criticized it for encouraging illegal immigrants to bring their children across unsecured borders.
Archbishop Gomez said in a Dec. 21, statement, however, that because of the widespread approval the bill had among most U.S. representatives and a significant show of support among senators, “it is clear that a majority of Congress and of the American public support this common-sense humanitarian measure.”
“I am confident that one day – sooner rather than later – the DREAM Act will become the law of the land.”
Archbishop Gomez extended his thanks to congressional leaders who supported the legislation but also expressed sadness over its current failure.
“My heart goes out to the thousands of young people who would have been helped by the DREAM Act and were disappointed by the Senate action,” he said. “We will continue to work so that one day soon you will have the opportunity to become Americans.”
“The U.S. Catholic bishops will continue to advocate for humane immigration reform, so that we can attain an immigration system that properly balances the need to protect our national sovereignty with our obligation to honor fundamental human rights.”
Archbishop Gomez underscored the need for more “education” to ensure that “Catholics, as well as all Americans, fully understand the humanitarian consequences of a broken immigration system, especially on families.”
Anchor babies are not enough.
Check this out;
(b) Stay of Removal of Certain Aliens Enrolled in Primary or Secondary School- The Attorney General shall stay the removal proceedings of any alien who--
(2) is at least 12 years of age; and
(3) is enrolled full time in a primary or secondary school.
So now not only will we have babies born here as "anchors" which parents illegally residing in the U.S. deliberately (at times) use to justify their own presence in the United States, but we will have ANCHOR SCHOOL KIDS!!! All they have to do is make it to Junior High School.
“U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration”
These traitors should be booted out of the country right behind the illegal invaders.
Let them agitate south of the border.
Many modern bishops are freemason and/or homosexual. Opus Dei membership is no guarantee of orthodoxy. There is no traditional Catholic requirement for open borders. These bishops take a position harmful to the interests of American Catholics and to the nation as a whole.
That would be fine as long as the legions of non-Catholic (in name only) traitors were booted as well.
I love the church and what it used to be. I hate the men in the church who are anti-American. I hate the men in the church who hid and abetted homosexual seduction and rape of young boys under their care. I hate the fact that the convents have become lesbian liberal propaganda supporters.
And why do you put the name “communist” on the Catholic Church? The Church has repeated
My friend, I've been to Central and South America in a previous employment and I can assure you that the "Church" might be anti-communist, but some of the priests, brothers, sisters and novitiates in El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Bolivia and other little out of the way spots I've been to actively support and aid the "freedom fighters" and guerillas. I've SEEN IT. I've HEARD IT. So spare me your sanctimonious tripe. My aunt was a novitiate in El Salvador having to come to this country and beg for money for their order and clinics, all the while the Catholic Church is one of the largest land owners in this country and has plenty of gold, money and silver to fund several pay outs for pederast priest hush money. Pathetic. That was when I had my falling out with the Church.
I was fortunate enough that I was mentored back to Christianity by my best friend and now realize that God and his son Jesus are my only hope. That I am nothing without them and that all men are fallen till they accept him.
Man and greed are universal. I'm not hating the Church, just the players. look these up for your proof.
http://www.trosch.org/bks/commprie.htm
http://www.christianorder.com/editorials/editorials_2000/editorials_nov00.html
Perhaps you had better do some research before you let your fingers do the talking for you — in falsehoods galore!
Lord have mercy on you!
What happened to your obedience of the Commandment “Thought shalt not beat false witnness against your neighbor”??
The Lord has had mercy on me. I am a poor Christian guilty of many far greater sins than you can imagine and will need every bit of his grace to be allowed to even be appear in judgement and not sent directly away from the Lord. But bearing false witness against the Catholic Church isn't one that I knowingly do.
As for proof, find some Marines and Army Green Berets that went TDY in Central and South America during the early 60's to mid 60's. They'll back me up on this. I'd like your proof that the Catholic church isn't or hasn't been infiltrated by Communists. We KNOW that there is a well connected and influential homosexual apparatus within the church. Or are you denying the frequency of relocation, hush money and numerous attacks by pederasts wearing the collar.
The Vatican claims to be a foreign Nation.
They remain hypocrites in sealing their nation while calling to open mine.
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An Interview with Archbishop José H. Gomez
Gomez vows to be an advocate for L.A.'s immigrants...(misleading title alert!)
San Antonio's Archbishop José Gomez named by Pope to be successor to Cardinal Roger Mahony. ...
Precious words from the archbishop... [Jose Gomez]
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Opus Dei Seeks to Make Everyday Life Holier
Archbishop Gomez 'deeply grateful' for Los Angeles appointment
Cardinal Mahony grateful LA will have Hispanic archbishop
Vatican: Archbishop Gomez appointed to Archdiocese of LA
Pope's 'Revenge' As LA Gets Opus Dei Bishop [Pope's "Revenge" on Hollywood Sodomites!]
Gomez Holds Both Conservative And Progressive Views [Denounced College for Pro-Abortion HRC Invite]
Pope Names Latino Leader For L.A. Archdiocese [Member of Conservative Opus Dei Movement]/a>
Historic Appointment to LA Archdiocese
Report: Gomez is going to L.A.
It's Official: New Archbishop [Gomez} for Los Angeles
El Tiempo Ha Venido -- Reports: (Archbishop) Gomez Up to LA (Catholic Caucus)
[To replace Cardinal Mahony] Vatican rumor: an American prelate in play?
Los Angeles Getting a New Archbishop (Part 1)
Los Angeles Getting a New Archbishop (Part 2)
No more amenesties EVER.
When you live where I do, that is not negotiatable.
**The Vatican claims to be a foreign Nation.
They remain hypocrites in sealing their nation while calling to open mine.**
Would you care to expand on your statements? Or are they your opinions? In what way is anyone at the Vatican a hypocrite?
The Catholic Church has stood against all the things conservtative disdain: abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, contraception, and the list goes on and on.
Other churches or denominations have crumbled to these pressures — the Catholic Church and the Vatican have stood firm and will continue to stand firm against these issues.
Sure doesn’t sound like hypocrites to me.
In more civilized times, patriotic Americans would know what to do with fifth columnists like Gomez.
Or not.
"I have lived a humble and peaceful life since I converted. Everything is so clear," said Ahmed, 45, of Tarrytown. "I didn't see in Catholicism the unity and compassion I found in Islam. I saw more kindness and willingness to give."
Ahmed's change of faith is not unique among her ethnic group today. In recent years, thousands of Hispanics nationwide have been converting to Islam, particularly since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when interest in the religion seemed to gain momentum.
Though precise statistics do not exist, the Council on American-Islamic Relations estimates there are more than 36,000 Hispanic Muslims in the nation today. Other estimates raise the total to 75,000. A study the group conducted also showed that 6 percent of the 20,000 annual converts to Islam are Hispanic.
You wrote:
“The kid loses the bike that wasn’t his to begin with.”
The kid loses the only home he has ever known - and he did nothing wrong.
“Why are you having such a difficult time grabbing this?”
I’m not. I easily understand your illogic because I have seen so much of it here at FreeRepublic.
“These people aren’t even being stripped of any property, so you’re analogy is really, really wrong.”
No, my analogy makes perfect sense - they are losing their home - the only home they have ever known.
“Any of this sinking in?”
No, your illogic will never sink in - thank God for that.
You wrote:
“For liberals, free loaders, parasites, and criminals it would be utterly terrifying.”
And for anyone who disagreed with you. Essentially you’re a fascist.
You wrote:
“Many modern bishops are freemason and/or homosexual.”
No, not very likely.
“Opus Dei membership is no guarantee of orthodoxy.”
Generally it is.
“There is no traditional Catholic requirement for open borders.”
Is that what he is calling for?
“These bishops take a position harmful to the interests of American Catholics and to the nation as a whole.”
Christians have a habit of choosing God over nations.
Gee, I sure hope you enjoy your cross burning tonight.
Gomez would appear to be one of those church people advocating for “social justice” that Glenn Beck has been warning us about.
The Archbishop is reminding the immigrants that he is on their side, so they don’t go to the Pentecostal churches,who are far more into tithing then the Catholic Church. BTW.
As for the money and churches thing: Usually the same people who want the clergy to live in apostolic poverty also want themselves to live high on the hog. But history tells us that priests can’t win: if they live in poverty, they are held in contempt—for their poverty. If they live high, then they are held in contempt, for their wealth. Saints are subject to the same ridicule as sinners. That’s because, like teenagers, people are fickle lovers.
Oh boy, here we go, back full circle to squatters' rights doctrine.
No, when the sheriff evicts squatters, the kid gets the boot right along with ma and pa. Even if it's the "only home he has ever known".
...and he did nothing wrong.
Yeah, they did, and this was dealt with up the thread. Repeating it won't make it any more true this time than the first time you wrote it.
Oh, spare me. If these “children” are so in love with the United States and want to become American citizens and show allegiance ONLY to the UNited States, then why do so many of them wave the Mexican flag, embrace the MEChA and LaRaza goal of reconquista (MEChA, if you don’t know, is a STUDENT organization, and one that is very much accepted by latino students), and badmouth the United States wth every breath? I don’t know where you’re from, but I was born and raised in Southern California, and I left there in the late 1970s because I saw way back then where the state was headed, and MEChA and LaRaza were in everyone’s face re: mexico first! latino first! chicano first! You perhaps should familiarize yourself with MEChA’s stated goals, which is that the United States must become a “bronze nation,” and that those Americans of European ancestry must be eliminated, by force if necessary.
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