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?”
Or just post and run?
Sophie Cruz—2015’s Rosa Parks.
Kate Steinle’s killer thanks you for your support.
Alternately, we could withold welfare payments and require recipients to work digging ditches.
Actually I’d rather have someone who loves being here.
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.
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In ‘street theatre’ the miracle must fit the situation.
A nerdy looking 15yo with a pencil box may have been questioned.
A ‘cute’ little girl (from California??) with a drawing etc is a shoo in...so to speak.
As cynical as I am, with all the talk about security, sending SS agents to Rome to learn how to drive the ‘Pope Mobile’, all the security etc, the scene most likely HAD to be staged - if not planned to the effect of it happening ‘spontaneously’’.
When I first saw it etc, my reaction was HOW MANY little urchins were planted along the route with the same message....figuring this guy would pick one of them.
These ‘IDIOTS’ are starting to wear me down...first idiots being the ones who ‘lead’ and push all this crap, lock stock and barrel figuring WE are to dumb to notice and then the scores of people who prove, on a daily basis, that the ‘leaders’ are correct - WE -collectively- are dumb enough to gobble this crap up.
Thank you for your testimony! At one time, our immigrant ancestors also did whatever work they could find. Unfortunately, the unions stepped in with their demands. Look at Detroit. Look at the education system in our country. More importantly, these immigrants are christians, who share our Judeo-Christian heritage. The situation in Europe is quite different. Angela Merkel in Germany welcomes hundreds of thousands of muslims to fill the job void left by over educated Germans who look down on menial labor. In another decade or two, Germany will become a muslim nation.
she ‘avoided’ the pope’s tight security about as well as she avoided the US border patrol and ICE
It must have touched me in the stomach, because I'm nauseous.
How many times is this old creep from Argentina going to tell me I should welcome the demise of my homeland? After this staged bit of children's theater, what's his next trick to hammer forth his "open borders" message?
I understand.
For sure...here in Kalifornia's Coachella Valley they are pretty much the blue/brown collar workforce, and do fine work.
Given local experience, however, we'd totally avoid any unsupervised in-home stuff, such as "cleaning lady"....it's quite apparent locally that 'Cousin Raul' gets tipped off after the home has been cased, and the homeowner's routine established.
Another little trick is that in our gated communties (of which there are tons), the trash collectors will stick something like a playing card into the side of a garage door.....if it's still unmoved by next trash pickup day, Cousin Raul gets another 'the coast is clear - they're still in Minnesota' phone call....
Nowadays, people have the option of welfare or disability to labor. Americans were doing those jobs before this country was flooded with illegals. Who in their right mind says they won't work for low wages and chooses instead NO wages? Nobody. They have an out and it's called a corrupt government.
I won't go into what a phony you proved yourself to be to ME PERSONALLY on the Angelqueen forum - suffice to say you are one, despite your shtick as FRs self appointed New-Age Catholic guru-ette.
Christian? Maybe you should take a ride out of upstate New York and visit my area of Florida, where they sell drugs and little girls, whom, yes, they often rape at highly disproportionate proportions. They, by far, commit the vast majority of all crime. Then their races are recorded as "white" because of laws that don't allow those recording the crime to use they own lying eyes. IOW, the criminal picks their own race.
They shut down main roads protesting for leftist and immigration causes wearing Che shirts. They overwhelm our public schools, healthcare and social services. Our hospital was on the verge of closing its trauma center because they ran out of money because illegals where swarming the ER. Our schools are failing because in part their kids come into them speaking no English and in part because thousands of new kids at the cost of thousands of dollars each causes the system to crash.
One lady I was taking a credit application from showed me THREE social security cards - the first two failed.
Must be nice where you are in upstate NY, but some of us live in the real world... the one where being FOS - like YOU - doesn't work.
Sorry but that's bulls*t.
When I was in HS, kids who dropped out got jobs in construction, building fences, remodeling, landscaping etc. Many of them, after they learned enough went on to open their own businesses, like my brother who runs a plumbing business today. He started out as a helper. Nowadays, those jobs aren't available to teens any longer. The market has been wiped out by illegals standing around at Home Depot.
They are, for the most part some of the hardest working that I have ever seen.
More BS. Many, or most in the construction business, work slow and do shoddy work. My former home which was built using mostly Mexican crews was built like a PIECE OF S***. All the joint work was sloppy and wavy. I had hot water going to the toilet. MY window sills were angled down toward the window so that all the rain ran into the seams and rotted the sheathing underneath - the walls had to be ripped out to fix it. All this work was done by cheap illegal alien crews.
I could go on but the myth that illegals are such hard-working craftsmen who do jobs we won't/can't so is a LIE.
We did them in the past, and did a better job.
“Those who seek refuge here, seriously intent on improving their lives, are neglected in these accounts. Perhaps, because they make up the majority.”
“make up the majority” —
Former governor Perry stated to Hannity, when he went down to the border once, that there had been about 600,000 crimes committed in Texas alone by illegals.
On Drudge lately, 70% of immigrants in California are on welfare.
They are improving their lives, but it is at the expense of American taxpayers and job holders.
American students are being denied educational opportunities because of the cost of illegal immigrants.
About 20 years ago, when I lived in Houston, a judge was warning that about a thousand crimes per month were committed by illegals circulating in and out of Mexico. I would assume the number has increased in twenty years.
Would you like to volunteer you and your family to be victims of illegals? Maybe you could wear a pink armband that would identify you as such. How many illegals do you personally house? Employ?
Islam is exploding in popularity in Mexico so how do you know they are all Christian? Islamic terrorists are also using the porous border to enter the U.S. with Mexico’s blessing. Mexico is our enemy & should be treated as such.
Not into this human parading as a deity. He’s not a God. And now he comes bearing the leftist line. Get out and go back to giving child molesters a pass.
There are no shortage of millennials who are doing hard labor for low wages. Marine and Army infantryman for instance. You can come to New England and still find most construction work done by natives, to include roofing, masonry, even farm work. Hard cases make bad law.
Just today I mentioned to someone how most of the illegal (and for that matter legal) folks from south of the border come from places an American would pay high dollar to live IF it had rule of law and property rights.
Once we get enough ground level petty corruption and wanton crime in place here, the numbers will probably slack off significantly...
BFD. Little girl hugged by commie pedophile.
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