First of all I have to agree that Fr. Groeschel is completely off base here.
Furthermore, illegal immigration and legal immigration must be immediately halted to preserve what is left of American culture and for political stability.
Multi-racial and multi-ethnic nations with minorities that don’t assimilate often enter into conflicts among one another.
examples: Yugoslavia (ethnic cleansing and broke apart), Czechoslovakia (founded in 1918 and split 1933), Soviet Union (founded 1922 and split in 1991), Georgia (abkhazia and South Ossetia want independence), Cyprus (ethnic cleansing and fighting between Greeks and Turks; partitioned in 1974), Pakistan (gained independence in 1947 and ethnically different eastern section split off in 1971), lastly the Austri-Hungary which obviously split into Austria and Hungary.
These are just some examples of the instability of caused by a multi-ethnic nation where minorities refuse to assimilate to the dominant culture.
Immigration also does not economically benefit America. George Borjas revealed this in the 1990’s with his research showing that immigrations contribution to the growth of the U.S. economy was neglible. For instance in 1990 America paid out $16 billion more in welfare to immigrants than thay paid in taxes.
Immigrants achieving the American dream is also a myth with immigrants on average taking multiple generations to rise from poverty.
Immigration as a Christian imperative is also a false notion. Our neighbor is someone we meet in day to day life not some poor person in Mexico. For instance in the parable of the good Samaritan Jesus is asked who is my neighbor and Jesus uses the example of meeting the Samaritan on the roadside. The key point is that our neighbor is someone we come in contact with in our daily lives not someone halfway across the planet.
he idea that we have a universal obligation to mankind is junk from the Enlightenment that is utterly impractical. If this obligation exists we are doomed to failure because the pain of the world is too great. Therefore we must focus on the morality of everyday life, as Thomas Fleming would say, which consists of obligations to God family and community.
Lastly to those that argue that immigration is part of the American tradition that is untrue as there has never been constant immigration as there has been now with no lulls to allow for the immigrants to assimilate.
Both Jefferson and Hamilton both agreed that immigration must be tightly controlled:
Jefferson wrote “[Immigrants will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, or if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbridled licentiousness… It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.”
-*Notes on the state of Virginia
Hamilton agreed writing: " Thje opinion adavance in
Notes on Virginia is completely correct" and goes on to state that “the influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit… In the composition of a society, the harmony of the ingredients is all important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendancy.”
Father Groeschel has hit the nail squarely on the head.
Employers claim blissful ignorance when they get caught hiring illegal immigrants but use them (like slaves) paying them a fraction of the minimum wage, fully aware that if they don’t accept, they can be deported back to a condition of poverty unimagined by even our own “american bred” poor.
Our “filtered” and “delicate sensibilities” are offended by Father Groeschel’s words for the simple reason that Mexican immigrants are a highly visible group. However,U.S. is one of the problem nations of the world when it comes to international human trafficking! That is to say, the selling and buying of humans for profit, sex, organ harvesting and baby selling.
We are “concerned” about how the Mexican immigrant problem affects our “american culture”…while conveniently miopic about our “culture of death”. Millions of babys aborted every year; doping our elderly and dying so that their death is"comfortable", a euphemism for euthanasia; importing illegal drugs to feed our fiendish need to stay high while exporting weapons to the drug cartels to fight their goverments efforts to fight the international drug trafficking trade.
Hamilton…Jefferson - give me a break! a very different nation back then and an unforseen kind of nation today. They could never have suspected how much candy coated deterioration our beloved nation would undergo.
In baptism we become priest, prophets and kings. That is, to renounce, denounce and announce.
Fr. Groeschel is right on track!
