Pope kisses a girl during the parade and this is the lucky girl Sophia Cruz
Posted on 09/24/2015 4:00:13 PM PDT by NYer
.- Sophie Cruz travelled from Los Angeles, across the United States, with her father and two uncles to try to hand a letter Pope Francis this week. Her dream came true on Wednesday when the popemobile stopped for the child, and she was given the most tender embrace of the day.
While Pope Francis paraded on his popemobile toward the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, Cruz, 5, jumped a security barrier and was soon stopped by security agents.
But Pope Francis saw her and motioned for the agents to bring her to him. She was carried over to the Roman Pontiff, who gave her a hug, a kiss, and a blessing.
Cruz in turn gave Francis a letter she wrote, as well as the yellow T-shirt worn by the immigration reform advocacy group to which her father and uncles belong. She also included a drawing of Pope Francis joining hands with herself and other children, with a message in Spanish that reads: “My friends and I love each other no matter the color of our skin.”
Pope kisses a girl during the parade and this is the lucky girl Sophia Cruz
Cruz later recited the letter’s contents, which she had memorized in English and Spanish, for reporters from The Guardian.
“I want to tell you that my heart is sad,” Cruz began. “I would like to ask you to speak with the president and the Congress in legalizing my parents, because every day I am scared that one day they will take them away from me.”
She mentioned the hard farm and factory work immigrants do, and concluded, “All immigrants just like my dad help feed this country. They deserve to live with dignity. They deserve to live with respect. They deserve an immigration reform.”
Cruz told reporters, “I feel blessed and very moved because this blessing isn’t just for our family, it’s for all the immigrant families, all the Latin American families.”
Cruz was born in the United States, to parents who immigrated illegally from Oaxaca, Mexico.
Raúl Cruz, Sophie's father, told Telemundo, “We made a really long trip, a big sacrifice, we’re migrant parents. Thanks be to God, to the faith we have, and the dream that we had, we were able to give the Pope a letter so he would intercede for all the immigrants, not just Latinos or Mexicans, but from all the countries. We are all the children of God.”
The Cruz family were among a group of a dozen faithful who travelled from Our Lady, Queen of the Angels parish in Los Angeles to see the Pope in Washington, D.C.
As they hoped, Pope Francis has indeed advocated for immigrants while in the United States. The same day he met Sophie Cruz, he spoke to the country's bishops, praising them for their welcome of immigrants, “who continue to look to America, like so many others before them, in the hope of enjoying its blessings of freedom and prosperity.”
And in his Sept. 24 address to Congress, he said, “I am happy that America continues to be, for many, a land of dreams,” noting that many migrants have come to America with the desire to build and achieve their dream of a future in freedom.
“On this continent, too, thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for themselves and for their loved ones, in search of greater opportunities. Is this not what we want for our own children?”
In anticipation of how this thread will be received, I would like to cite 2 recent experiences.
1. FIOS - the town where I reside has contracted with FIOS to lay cable throughout the entire town - 58 square miles. I live n a townhouse community of 89 units. Prior to their arrival, National Grid visited the development and planted yellow and orange flags to mark existing electrical and cable lines. The FIOS team was comprised of, what looked like, South American/Mexican men. The soil here is thick, dense clay. The work began on a very hot and sultry summer day. The men dug down on either side of each resident's driveway to waist level, placing the heavy soil on plastic tarps. Special equipment then ran the cable under the driveway and the men then replaced the soil and the sod, with such precision that you would not have known they had ever been there.
2. A neighbor's property borders on a glacial hill that is slipping. The stone wall, erected several years ago, began to fail this year. She contracted with a local landscaper to remove and replace it. Once again, I watched as 2 Hispanic men were sent to remove and replace the wall. Over the span of several days, they cleared weeds and other debris, and physically carted off a large volume of stone with only a wheel barrow. A truck arrived with the new stone: massive blocks of granite that were hand transported by these same 2 men to the rear of the property and positioned into place. Where necessary, stones were cut to precision for proper placement.
Temperatures hovered in the lower 90's as they worked and I observed from the comfort of an air conditioned home. The men took a short, 20 minute break to enjoy some lunch brought from home. I brought them a large pitcher of filtered water and plenty of ice to cool them down. They were appreciative.
Watching these immigrants, I reflected on my own ancestors who arrived in the US, practically penniless. My great great grandfather, orphaned when his parents were killed by the Prussians, was found by French sailors, clinging to the body of his mother and taken aboard their ship. They educated him over the years and he learned 7 languages. Yet, when he arrived in the US and married an immigrant Irish Catholic woman, the only work he could obtain was in a meat packing plant. Due to prejudice, they could only find a residence in the most dangerous Manhattan neighborhood, Hell's Kitchen. There, they raised 5 children.
I know many millenials who have graduated college with degrees but would never consider doing the menial work required by FIOS or local landscapers. While you may not like or agree with this immigration from Mexico and South America, consider a very important point: They are Christians!. Throughout Europe, the immigrants brought in to do similar work are Muslims. Before you judge our immigrant situation in the US, be grateful for the gift of christian workers to fulfill the demands of a society so blessed by God!
Bully pulpit, ping!
Defy ? This was planned.
That is touching.
Whoop too dooo.
Somebody shoved her out there. It was not spontaneous. It was a Polaroid moment.
This was a set-up.
Your anecdotes have no bearing over whether a nation should enforce its immigration laws.
Sorry, but emotion does not trump reason.
“...be grateful for the gift of christian workers to fulfill the demands of a society so blessed by God!”
There are some web sites on the internet, ignored by the media, that contains lists of people murdered by illegals. Their families are not grateful. Nor the millions of unemployed who have been robbed of their livelihood. Nor the taxpayers who have had to finance them all with billions of tax dollars.
STREET THEATRE, plain and simple.
She is a thoroughly programmed, well rehearsed little alien.
They are even going through the charade of feigning anger at the Secret Servicemen. My bet is everybody was in on it.
Gosh, Americans could -never- do that kind of work. If I wanted to live in Mexico, I would. And a Mexican Catholic is Christian in a sense, but they are also a highly superstitious one, mixing in many strange pagan Indian beliefs.
I love them, and want them to stay south of the border unless THEY show a desire to embrace my culture, not the other way around.
She was the daughter of an illegal alien, deliberately planted here for Oboma’s photo-op. And they played you beautifully.
He is here to promote illegal immigration to fill his pews, his seminaries, and his collection baskets.
This very timely, made-for-TV-moment reminds me of the story of Bill Clinton on the beach at Normandy where he came across a pile of stones and made a cross in the sand.
And then it turned out that because the beach didn’t have a single natural stone on it that someone on Clinton’s staff put the stones on the beach so Clinton could have his scripted moment.
Likewise, I don’t believe that a little girl managed to get past heavy security so she could see the Pope. It’s cute but it’s not at all believable that an illegal alien little girl would conveniently have a cute moment with a pro-illegal alien leftist pope just in time for him to push his agenda on the USA.
I’m not fooled.
How endearingly staged—this happens everyday. Dissidents in Cuba couldn’t push through but 5 year old could?
That will work right up until the time, Johnny jihad straps a bomb to his little girl’s chest and send her off. All in the name of Allah and Mad Mo.
Awww! Watch the little girl run to the Marxist co-conspirator!
“Cruz began. “I would like to ask you to speak with the president and the Congress in legalizing my parents, because every day I am scared that one day they will take them away from me.””
A pantload. And like how the little Mexican broke through a line of security because she wants to go somewhere she isn’t allowed. A nice metaphor for her family.
She was a fairly articulate five year old.
Thank you for sharing. My wife looks out of her office windo and sees low pants thugs dealing drugs, peeing in the bushes behind the convenience store, and cop cars everywhere trying to keep ahead of the scumbags. Oh and sleeping till 2:00 pm then going out and doing their “commerce” which is poisoning our youth. I would much rather have these fine hard working men as neighbors as the louts here.
Tell Kate Steinle about Christian Mexico.
Mexicans, who may or may not be here illegally, do the brunt of the labor out in the Texas sun. They mow lawns, pick crops, the women clean houses and babysit, and wash dishes in restaurants, and whatever work they can find.
The men do a lot of the house building, and fence building, and roofing, as well as other construction work out in the hot Texas sun.
I hear people yammering all the time about “they are taking away jobs from Americans!
I don’t think there’s much truth in that. I don’t know a lot of Americans who could or would do these jobs out in the heat—and they would want higher wages if they did.
They are, for the most part some of the hardest working that I have ever seen.
It is what it is, and I don’t know the solution for the situation.
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