"Wow Brownback is really un-conservative-ing himself"
Ever since Brownback converted to Catholicism, he has taken on the U.S. Catholic church's stance of must be benevolent to the illegal aliens. Now, I know Catholics, of which one half of my family is, will try to make this into an attack on the Church, but it isn't. It is an attack on the liberal, humanist, verging on liberation theology arm of the church that says you must be charitable to these poor people, regardless if they broke the law by illegally entering our country, or that they are draining our welfare, education, and medical coffers to the detriment of the rest of our society.
The socially liberal Catholics are putting the emphasis on the poor "victim", but have identified the wrong "victim". They think it is the collective illegals, when it really is the whole of our society that suffers from broken borders and illegal acts.
The Catholic church should butt out here. It smells of the same activism it practiced years ago when the Sandinista's were at work down in South America, and all of the activist nuns were running around there helping the socialistic cause. It's my biggest problem with the Catholic church. It has become a source of social activism, rather than spiritual activism. The liberal part of the Church, that is. Hopefully the pre-Vatican II mentality will make greater inroads into the Catholic church, and purge it from these liberal activist elements, such as the U.S. Catholic Bishops Council, which is primarily a socialistic organ of the Church.
I'm Catholic and I agree with you 100%. Some in the Church (by no means all) are very misguided in encouraging this hugely immoral situation which in the long run isn't helping anyone except the US and Mexican elites. It hurts the lower and middle classes here in the US by depressing wages. In Mexico it allows the ethnic "Spanish" elites to own virtually everything while the "Indian" poor have nothing.
However, I do think there's another factor involved with Brownback, and it's spelled Big Meat Processing. I bet if we check his donor list we'll find some prominent packing plants which were closed on May 1st, if you know what I mean.