Posted on 07/16/2014 10:33:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Two hundred children who crossed the southern border were in Nebraska Wednesday awaiting deportation.
The number is a fraction of the more than 50,000 children who tried to enter the United States since October.
A local nun who saw the situation in Central America believes sending the children back could mean a death sentence. Sister Kathleen Erickson said the situation in Honduras has deteriorated since a coup in 2009.
Erickson said she wonders why America would send children back when they’re trying to survive.
“There seemed to be a lot of bodies of young people being found, and I’m talking into the hundreds,” she said.
She said it is no surprise that many children from Honduras, Ecuador and Guatemala would try to survive by heading north.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.ketv.com ...
She is part of the Marxist propaganda machine. Not good for the Catholic Church.
Fortune hunting in the USA finally looked good enough that they were willing to make the trek. That’s all that changed.
Doesn’t the church have an island somewhere (Malta perhaps?) where they could accommodate, feed, clothe, educate and guide these poor children. Especially since most of them are presumably Catholics.
It certainly does not look like the banana leaders of the republics from which they came, are at all bent out of shape over this. It’s that much less riches needed for the country, that much more available for the government to wallow in.
The good sister is welcome to relocate to Central America to help out her children.
With all due respect to the nun - how are these kids getting from Guatemala to Mexico and how many are dying or falling into unsavory hands along the way? Is it in fact an evil to encourage it and to encourage them to leave their families in the hope that some of them will make it into the USA? Would it not be better to aid the countries involved and help provide stable democratic governments for all the people there. It is the trouble with big hearted people who do not exercise their God given brain power but just respond to the emergency in front of them. Thank God there are people like her to care. She should stick to her gift though and leave policy for those with the brains to see!
Guatamala Immigration Law:
To apply for the 90-day residence permit at Guatemalan
Immigration, the applicant must provide:
Two recent photographs
A valid passport
A letter of sponsorship from a Guatemalan sponsor
Evidence of the financial resources of both the applicant
and sponsor
Present the application and supporting documents at the
Guatemalan Immigration central office (see address above).
Generally this visa is issued fifteen days following
application
Step Two / Application for Visa Ordinaria
Before expiration of the 90-day residence permit (step one),
an intending resident must apply for a “Visa Ordinaria”
which permits residence in Guatemala for six months and is
renewable thereafter. The applicant must re-submit:
Another statement of support from the applicant’s
Guatemalan sponsor
Evidence of the applicant’s financial resources
A report on the applicant’s police record in Guatemala
A medical report
A police report from the applicant’s prior place of
residence in the United States
A birth certificate authenticated by a Guatemalan
Consulate in the U.S.
Pending
Step Three / Visa Ordinaria Extensions
The Visa Ordinaria may be extended in six month increments.
All the documentation required in steps one and two must be
re-submitted again when applying for the extension.
At the expiration of the fourth extension, i.e., after two
years of residence under the visa ordinaria, the applicant
may qualify as a legal permanent resident of Guatemala.
Cost (subject to change)
90-day visa Q115.35
Visa Ordinaria Q115.35
Visa Ordinaria Extension Q115.35
http://photos.state.gov/libraries/guatemala/8553/consular/ACSResidenceRequirements20101124.pdf
Agreed! Not good for the Catholic Church!!
Yeah... why can’t we do better than a banana republic can?
If she and her sisters were restricted to using their own resources, the practical logistics would soon force them into the most efficient solution, which indeed is to help the chillun and their parents at home. OPM is the problem here.
Yes this is coming from a Catholic, but I don’t blame this Nun— I’m sure she’s seen some horrible things but (God forgive me, as I do the sign of the cross!) but the Church and especially Nuns that do hard work in tough situations can’t see the broader reality and not just feel for what is directly in front of them. As my mother would say, can’t see the forest for the trees.
She said it is no surprise that many children from Honduras, Ecuador and Guatemala would try to survive by heading north.
Mexico is north, and their unemployment rate is lower than ours.
Agree. My sister does work for her Kansas City evangelical church in Guatemala. She has made several trips over the years and has never mentioned anything dangerous as this nun claims.
Typical lies, exaggerations and general disinformation from the ‘Mother Church’ to support the false ‘asylum’ claim.
They just want to climb on the US gravy train. Ship ‘em back on the decks of banana cargo boats. I’m sick of their BS.
If the Catholic church wasn’t a constant agitator for illegal border crossing into the US I would give her the benefit of the doubt.
Yep OPM is the problem in most areas!
Why don’t these wonderful humanitarian catholics ever talk about doing the truly wonderful and humanitarian thing...like fix these third world shitholes so people don’t want or need to leave?
You’re right, Cowboy.
She’s full of crap. These countries have always been crapholes and the solution is to ship them home immediately, cargo class. We’ve already wasted too many scares dollars on them; they are not our responsibility in any way. Round up and deport the dispersed ones as well.
It is not America's problem to provide welfare entitlements to the poor, ignorant, and diseased masses of Central and South America. Send these moochers to live in the Vatican. Pope Francis can demonstrate his belief in social justice by leading and opening the Vatican to the huddled masses of Central and South America.
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