U.S. Immigration actions and rhetoric...
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In a letter to America’s bishops, Pope Francis last month decried a “major crisis” unfolding in the United States: “the initiation of a program of mass deportations.” He called on “all the faithful of the Catholic Church, and all men and women of good will, not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters.”
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It is a known and studied fact that the 'Undocumented Immigrants working in this country are more law-abiding than the citizen population'...yet the Trump administration focuses on the relative few criminals as justification for "Mass Deportations"...even threatening to re-institute "Zero Tolerance" provisions that separate children from their parents. This is barbaric behavior, and even the Popes who preceded Francis preached the same respect for "migrants and refugee brothers and sisters...see the following..
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Based on the outcry that followed Francis’s letter, you’d be forgiven for thinking it marked a dramatic departure from the views of his predecessors. It didn’t. “To welcome” the undocumented migrant “and to show him solidarity is a duty of hospitality and fidelity to Christian identity itself,” Pope John Paul II said in 1995. His successor, Pope Benedict XVI, remarked that immigrants and native-born people alike “have the same right to enjoy the goods of the earth whose destination is universal, as the social doctrine of the Church teaches.” In 2010, he selected “one human family” as the theme for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
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Everything Trump is doing is meant to weaken, if not outright destroy, the Good Will, America has built up over many generations. Oh, and for those just concerned about the "Bottom Line"...we NEED millions of immigrants...properly vetted...like the bipartisan Senate Bill Trump killed would have done...to remain here.
MAGAs have no concept or understanding that these "Mass Deportations" will harm not only our national GDP...but their own pocketbooks...i.e. not our Greatest Generation...rather our Dumbest Generation.