I don’t see where he said “sometimes.” If you want to be precise then be precise.
But I hear ya. Truth to tell, my Bishop said this same thing a couple of years ago, and I wrote a letter to the Diocesan paper calling it an unnecessary negative stereotype, and letting him know that it tended to close off serious discussion of how to humanely, and efficiently, return people to their full human dignity in their native lands, which they have sometimes been unjustly forced out of by extreme need, and even violence.
The Diocesan paper did not print it, and the Diocesan P&J Director was quite irritated at me. And no word from the Bishop.
So I know what's bugging you. But I have since learned that you brush off stuff like that, and go straight to "Come, let us reason together."
Is it not cruel and unjust that people are flooding out of their homelands, and creating chaos in other people's homelands? We're not going to shoot Mamacita and her boys in the water. But isn't there an upstream solution to this problem, to begin with?
Returning them to their esteemed homeland with a bag of USDA surplus food and instruction of how to be a legal immigrant, is (in short) not a bad idea.