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The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform
December 16, 2006
One of the priorities of the OLAPR Council is to focus on immigration issues within our region particulary the support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform and the implementation of the Justice for Immigrants Campaign at the parish level.Â
One resource for parishes is to visit the Justice for Immigrants site (//http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/) which has a parish resource page located at http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/parishes.html
Topics: Immigration |
March 10th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Immigration is the basis of our country’s expansion and growth. No longer do we have the endless horizon of our nation’s western expansion. It is in our future to determine the best way to grow socially with people from many walks of life assimilated into our American culture. We must have social engineering as well as geopolitical astuteness to succeed as a nation.
THIS IS NOT A BLANKET WELCOME FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
Illegal immigration is the new slavery issue of our time.
Just as long struggle for civil equality for black people, the defining moment of American society a generation ago, was greatly supported and encouraged by the many diverse denominations and churches and congregations. So too must the fight against illegal immigration be supported and defended by those same churchs and congregations.
Our own Catholic Church leaders from pastors to bishops must be pointing out that Christ taught us to uphold the civil and national laws.
Before the bishops and Cardinal Mahoney issue their next call for support of illegal activities, they might visit a few California cities and talk to residents, both Anglo and Hispanic, about how they see their communities. They might confer with real Black leaders to gauge the impact of widespread unemployment among Black unskilled workers. They might talk to jail wardens and hospital executives about their clients’ populations, and to school leaders about the cultural identity of their schools and curricula.
It our Christian Catholic moral and religious duty for all American Citizens and Legal Residents to follow the many local and national laws against illegal immigration and to punish those who employ and protect them.
There can be no justice for illegal immigrants without first providing justice and thought for American ciitzens and residents who provide the huge tax and cultural benefits to help the 20 to 30 million illegal aliens.