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?”
Jesus said: “Suffer the little Children who come unto Me”
Luke 18:16
Matthew 19;14
Mark 10:14
Thomas had a God Complex. LOL
Jesus didn’t tell them to jump the border.
For that she will be a media star, she will be invited to the White House, her family will be granted citizenship and Microsoft will send her a big box of gifts.
Deport her.
As you read through these excellent posts, NYer,
please note smart Freepers are not easily fooled!
Your straw man is made of...straw.
Such a set-up. Don’t anyone fall for this blatant propagandist garbage.
” This was planned.”
Of course it was. The leftwing GUARDIAN had a letter provided to them before the kiss?
Same ole BS about those clowns “fainting” 7 years ago at every obama stop during the election?
He’s still a Marxist sympathizer. Even Stalin, Mao, and other Marxists took touching pictures with the children of the serfs.
This pope is an abject idiot!
No Sweetie, hopefully one day your Illegal Invader Parents will take you to their Homeland. The generous American Taxpayers might even pay for your Family trip.
Nobody will be taking you away from your Parents unless you are a full term Fetus and your Mommy chooses to visit Planned Parenthood.
I am so sick of this crap. The Law is the Law. Politicians who use Empathy to gain Power should be Hung.
Basil, here’s where you and I disagree,
The solution is called Rule of Law.
Good grief, I have even read on Facebook that people cannot call themselves Prolife if they don’t embrace illegal children entering our country.
Donald Trump’s time has come.....and I support him!
TOTAL SET-UP.
I smell a “brilliant muslim radio invention” here.
Stayed. Political theater. Sickens me that a Pope would be part of such.
all so she could give him a letter whining about illegals... feh
I wonder if she would have received the same reception if she had been carrying a pencil box with a clock she built inside and just wanted to show it to the Pope.
As you know only too well, the media feed off of the 'exceptions'. Those who seek refuge here, seriously intent on improving their lives, are neglected in these accounts. Perhaps, because they make up the majority.
>> Defy ? This was planned. <<
Agree 100% with DJ. I've been arguing with anti-Catholic freepers all day ("cult of mary worship thinks the Pope never makes an error", blah blah blah).
That being said, anyone who CAN'T see this photo-op was planned is blind as a bat.
They needed a "heartwarming" kodak moment to push illegal alien amnesty. The little girl's "spontaneous" moment was agreed in advance, timed to occur at the "right" moment, and she presented him with that drawing and caption in Spanish because she was told to. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if someone else drew it for her.
Staged*
Sorry, but emotion does not trump reason.
What he said.
The United States government has a right and duty to know who crosses our boarders and for what reason.
Yes many people cross our southern boarder for the noble reason of work. But many others cross that boarder for the reason of obtaining welfare benefits or birthright citizenship. Others cross it to do us harm.
We can not endure forever open boarders and the longer we let it go on the more hazards to which we subject ourselves.
We must deport every illegal we can find. We must begin to enforce our boarders and we must make it very difficult for employers to hire illegals.
WE must also pass laws that deny illegals any benefits from the government be that welfare education or healthcare paid for from the treasury.
If we do these things illegals will have little incentive to come here and those here will have reason to leave.
It was every bit as `spontaneous’ as Jackie Kennedy shoving toddler John-John out of line to salute his pappy.
My cow died so I won’t need this amnesty bull.
I have no problem with Hispanic IMMIGRANTS. I HAVE A BIG PROBLEM WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS AND A DAMN FOREIGNER LECTURING ME ON IMMIGRATION, FIREARMS, THE ECONOMY AND CLIMATE CHANGE.
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