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March 27, 2006
USA Losing Another Battle v Mexico Ganar Otra Batalla
This time 500,000 protestors took to the streets over the weekend in Los Angeles to protest new legislation aimed at curtailing illegal immigration. As one lady marcher said, "We need laws to protect illegal immigrants!"
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No doubt, this opinion echoes in the hearts and minds of most Americans who can't wait to see this country become a third world nation with all the high standards that brought us Montezuma's revenge.
This beseiged legislation was intended to target organizations that work like the old French Underground during WWII that once smuggled downed pilots back to the allies lines, but with a few new twists. The smuggling is coming in, not out. The allied lines would be the many sanctuary cities and clandestine business offices created to insure successful illegal immigration and assimilate the illegals into the welfare sys.., er, I mean, work system.
These "illegal" organizations specialize in introducing the new arrivals to a shopping list of fictitious ID's, including social security cards, birth certificates and other fake credentials all designed to avoid detection and apprehension by law enforcement.
The secret "Welcome Wagon" operations are often the first to introduce the new illegals to a host of free welfare services and charitable services, such as the hugely popular "Well Baby Program" that solicits pregnant mothers in Mexico to illegally cross the border to have their children in American hospitals at taxpayers expense, thus assuring them of citizenship and a host of instant (but, well deserved) expensive safety nets while making a mockery of the legal immigration system that forces Asians and Europeans to go through a long and tedious process to actually earn the right to become American citizens (isn't that oppressive?).
I read about such illegal barrio services, hailed as mondern day Robin Hood organizations, in my grandson's 5th grade text book teaching students about California history as writen by members of La Raza (our new friends in high places).
The proposed legislation makes it a felony for anyone to give assistance to illegals immigrants and this has the Roman Catholic Church in a rage. As a result, they have been vocal opponents and have been out working the barrios to recruit protestors to fight this legislation. The Church says this law is inconsistent their intention to help ALL the poor and needy people, regardless of their legal status. I should point out, many illegals (also Catholic) provide a steady stream of income into the Catholic Church, which has absolutely no bearing on their support for illegals.
Do not fear...It's not likely that any controversial legislation, especially something this hot, will be passed this term. It's an election year and legislators are more concerned over losing votes than losing America's borders, language and culture. Besides, most American's don't really care about that stuff anymore, that's passé', better to just turn the nation into one big commune of good times for all with lots of free things paid by the rich! We don't need no stinkin culture.
Ustedes...tenga un buenos días!
Posted by Post Scripts at March 27, 2006 08:16 AM
Comments
Hello Jack. I'd like to address a few things, if I may. The Catholic Church has no doctrinal position on illegal immigration other than: 1) Catholics are obliged to obey all just laws of the state; and 2) Catholics are obliged to show mercy to anyone in genuine need. The dilemma comes with the fact that so many illegal immigrants are apparently both lawbreakers AND persons in genuine need. The Catholic Church does, of course, minister to anyone in grave necessity, without regard to creed or legal status. At the same time the Catholic Church (at least in principle) exhorts all men to obey all just laws, including immigration laws.
Although there may be some dispute as to whether our immigration laws are just, the weight of Catholic tradition answers "yes", our immigration laws are just, when applied to anyone who is able to meet his basic material needs in his home country or elsewhere.
As a Catholic myself, it seems to me that a majority of illegals are not here because of any grave necessity. There are undoubtedly some exceptions to this. But - here's where the rubber meets the road - it isn't MY job, or the job of the Catholic Church, to figure that out. We are not the border patrol. It is the job of the state to enforce its own laws. As a citizen I have the right to assume that the state is doing its job and that my neighbors are here legally. I have friends from Mexico and I don't go around asking to see their papers. If they come to me asking for help, or even employment, I should not have to think twice about it. And the same goes for the Church as an institution. While I believe our immigration laws should be enforced, the fact is that they are not being enforced, and I don't appreciate the task of enforcement being dumped on me, or American employers, or the Catholic Church.
Posted by: Jeff Culbreath at March 27, 2006 11:02 PM