Well stated. The bishops seem hopelessly befuddled on this matter.
What is this theological principle by which immigrants have no duty to respect the laws of the nation to which they migrate? We are bound to pay our coin to Caesar, but that duty is suddenly magically suspended for them?
Christian charity, yes. But our nation could be far more charitable by simply expanding legal immigration from Mexico.
Catholic bishops need to be educated on the Constitution at least as much as an ordinary person. The 14th Amendment does not say anyone born here is a citizen. It’s been interpreted as such by corrupt judges but that’s another story.
Or criticizing Mexican government policies and leaving us US citizens alone to deal with our own 19 trillion dollar debt
It's the principle of mystical nationalism which the Left has pushed since the end of World War II.
Hispanics (or Latinos, both words ironically of European origin) are the original autochthonous or indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere who grew organically out of the very soil of their Mystical Motherland. Whites or Europeans or Westerners or whatever you wish to call them are "foreign devils" who are occupying conquered territory where they have no business being.
Since WWII he Left has been all about reverse Hitlerism. The Left originally was internationalist, universalist, and class-centered, championing coal miners and lumberjacks. Now coal miners and lumberjacks are redneck rapists of Mother Earth and her "indigenous" children.
Interestingly, this adoption of reverse Nazi mystical nationalism is also why the Left turned against the Jews (all mystical nationalists, right or left, hate the Jews). Ironically, at first the Jews and Israel benefited from this as the Communist world supported them for a brief time (and longer inside the United States). But now in the name of opposing Nazism the Left wants to kill Jews to fuel a mystical blood-and-soil nationalist ideology for anti-Semites, supposedly of color.
The Left is certifiably insane.