Posted on 02/10/2016 5:33:02 PM PST by SkyPilot
Pontiff's show of solidarity during visit to Mexico
Pope Francis, who has spent the past several months pressing nations, including America, to embrace those fleeing the unrest in the Middle East, Africa and Asia with open arms - and open borders - is now taking that stance to a new political level and planning a solidarity stand with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.
Market Watch reported Francis is due to arrive in Mexico on Friday for a six-day visit. And as part of that visit, he is planning to stand on the U.S. border, in Ciudad Juarez, and deliver a mass.
The town is located just 90 yards from U.S. land.
About 200,000 are expected to turn out for the mass on the Mexico side, and another 50,000 from Rio Grande in Texas, the Wall Street Journal reported.
"This is one community, despite the fence," said Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi, during a press conference reported by Market Watch. "I think it will be moving to see this single community even though it is located on two sides of the border."
Immigration has been a top issue during this presidential campaign season, with both Donald Trump and Sen. Ted vowing to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump in particular has sounded the alarm on illegals in the United States, promising to deport the 11 million who are breaking the law with their presence. And he's also come down hard on the refugee situation, calling for a blanket halt to immigration of all individuals coming from Muslim dominated nations in order to allow U.S. authorities time to catch up...
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Can he stand on the California freeway in front of the “Peligro” signs instead?
Is he going to also go to the southern Mexican border and protest their policy of not letting non-Mexicans stay in Mexico with a strict border policy?
DK
Blackmail.
We have an immigration law against aiding and abetting illegal aliens...
Who’s the guy with the orange skin crying behind him?
no, it’s not a public sector job!!
How do you blackmail a Pope?
Yeah, I’m fairly certain that he won’t actually be standing AT the border.
Errr...ahhh.....err...Open borders at the Vatican City too.Hopw about some reciprocity there Popey wan renewbe? So far :
“The population of Vatican City is about 800 people, of whom over 450 have Vatican citizenship, while the rest have permission to reside there, either temporarily or permanently, without the benefit of citizenship.
About half of the Vatican’s citizens do not live inside Vatican City. Because of their occupations (mostly as diplomatic personnel), they live in different countries around the world. The conferral or loss of citizenship, authorization to live inside Vatican City and formalities for entering the territory, are governed by special regulations issued according to the Lateran Treaty.”
http://www.vaticanstate.va/content/vaticanstate/en/stato-e-governo/note-generali/popolazione.html
So lets go and hold hands at the entry to Vatican City and make sure that the millions spent there to accommodate 800 people are spread around the thousands of North African immigrants now washing up o the shores of Italy.
Whats wrong Popey? Got cold feet there? Whats good for the Mexican goose is good the Papel gander!
You Catlicks stay away from the US border!The opium is coming across so fast into the USA from Mexico that 40% of the State of New Hampshire are jazzed up with opiates. So get thee to a nunnery Popey baby!!
Just wondering, how does he figure they belong on THIS side of the border?
Put a tank on the American side and lower the main gun at him.
F ‘em.
Because in Marxism, “equality” means you steal from and murder “the rich” who have more money and give it to your supporters, who want to pillage and steal. The whole Thou Shalt Not Covet command from God goes right out the window. Those that are successful are the evil ones, and those who want to steal from them are the noble ones.
I could have said it kinder, but certainly not better. Thanks, Talisker!
Whose side is he on anyway?
The creepy evil man, the “Pope”, is basically saying that the USA is an illegitimate entity that should not exist.
I believe Benedict was blackmailed for his own homosexuality and his affairs with men (and possibly boys, but that is speculation). The Italian press printed rivers of ink on the subject of Benedict being ousted in what was basically a coup,but they alleged he was blackmailed because he didn’t handle other priests homosexuality in the right matter. I never believed that for an instant. Mismanagement of anything would not be damning enough to make him resign. He was blackmailed for something far, far worse. The whole lie about Benedict having to step down because of poker health was the cover story.
The pope is wrong.
I best keep my mouth shut other than to say I’ll remain an ex-Catholic. With this clown, I see no reason to return.
Somewhere in Argentina a village is missing it’s whining homosexual communist pizza eater...
Who’s that bitch crying behind The Pretender?
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