What do you think about DACA and the Dreamers?

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What do you think about DOCKA and the dreamers.
And those who illegally are here?
 
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Zechariah 7:9
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Judge with true justice, and show kindness and compassion toward each other. Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the resident alien or the poor;* do not plot evil against one another in your hearts.

Jerimiah 22: 3
Thus says the LORD: Do what is right and just. Rescue the victims from the hand of their oppressors. Do not wrong or oppress the resident alien, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
 
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He may SAY he does, but he DOES nothing about it, and actions really do speak louder than words. If they didn’t, the Dreamers should be sent home since technically, they are illegal.

I guess OUR president is more concerned with the lawsuits against him these days.

I think the Dreamers should have a path to citizenship. I believed the US has waived its right to send them back. Living in Southern California, I see many Dreamers, and most are bilingual because they’ve learned their parents’ language as well as English.

I’m, sympathetic to the Dreamers, but I don’t believe in chain migration. I agree with the president that chain migration has to end.
 
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I believe they and their parents should be returned where they came from. Their parents are the ones responsible for their being here illegally. The parents can now teach them how to live in their country of origin. We are not responsible.
 
The thing with me is that most of the people who have come across our southern border are my fellow Catholics. I have a hard time turning my back on them no matter how they got here. In Catholicism we have respect for the dignity of all persons and we are pro-family. I can’t condone the cruelty involved in separating these families.
 
I think the parents should be able to stay. I’m not for breaking up families, either. However, I believe this should be the end. No more Dreamers, no more anchor babies. No more chain migration. I’m very sympathetic to them, but the US can’t take in all illegals. The line has to be drawn somewhere. If illegals know they are going to be able to stay, it will encourage illegal immigration. I am for legal immigration, though, but in the future I think it should be on individual merit. A spouse could bring a spouse, a person could bring minor children, but that’s it. No aunts, uncles, grandparents, greatgrandparents, etc. I do believe 9-mo9nth work permits should be issued to those who just want to work here for a time.
 
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I believe terms like ‘anchor babies’, ‘chain migration’ and ‘catch and release’ are dehumanizing terms meant to strip the person of their dignity. Once you can get those terms to stick, it’s a lot easier to look past the misery and sufferings our immigration policies inflicts on people. Hence, we now have Border Patrol agents destroying potentially life saving water caches.


This is a grave of an unidentified immigrant I came across while staying at a Benedictine monastery last New Year’s Day. Judging by the size and colors of the tattered clothes accompanying it, I’m guessing the soul who occupies this grave is that of a young girl.

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In giving this poor soul a final resting place the Benedictines understand the dignity of the human person. Even the original title of this thread served to strip that dignity away.
 
Illegal immigration is sinful even if these children are born here they are not and will never be Citizens.

They need to be sent home with their parents

It is horrific that Our Bishops care more about gun control and illegal immigration then teaching the Faith.
 
The USCCB are not Infailable and they are known to support the democratic party.

Catholics can’t be so trusting of them
 
It’s not something I think about unless it’s in the news. The children, most of whom are now adults, should be able to apply for citizenship legally without having their parents sent back to their native countries. (Having a parent sent back is very traumatic.)
 
We have to call them something. We can’t write out “a baby who was born in the US for the sole reason he or she would be a US citizen and enable his parents to then stay in the US” in everything we write, whether it’s formal or informal. People would just say, “Why didn’t you just say ‘anchor baby’”? And in truth, it’s cumbersome. We’re all labeled in some way. It doesn’t strip people of their dignity nor does it confer dignity.
 
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I agree with that. They do not endorse candidates. I go to them for the “last word” on Church teaching anf trust what they write.
 
Well, it wouldn’t be illegal to remove them, but I do think it would be immoral and unethical and against Christ’s teaching to do so. Unless we’re native American, all of us spring from immigrants. People who want them removed should think of that.
 
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Illegal immigration is sinful even if these children are born here they are not and will never be Citizens.
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People who are born here are citizens even if their parents are not. Did you apply for citizenship if you were born here? I sure didn’t, and I was born in California to Brazilian parents, who became US citizens legally.
 
Then there would be no need for DACA, a Democrat-sponsored bill.

Fortunately for America, the Republican Party and the conservative movement, there is a solid, red-blooded American, good old torch-and-pitchfork no-nonsense way of overhauling America’s immigration laws: enact a statute of limitations for the statutory crime of illegal immigration.


So far, the Rep. Party and our current president have not seen fit to concern themselves with much of anything except Russia and adult film actresses and even Hillary Clinton, now a private citizen, who will probably remain a private citizen.
 
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People get removed every day. I suppose some would prevail if they had the resources to fight the removal, but most don’t.

I’m one of the few here who supports DACA. I’m a first generation American myself. Actually enacting a statute of limitations, which doesn’t exist as yet, would be a good thing, I think.
 
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Without DACA or an enacted Statute of Limitations, the fate of others would be dependent on how much their situation mirrored the situation of those who fought and got to stay. So it should be incumbent on Congress to act, but they show little interest in doing so, sadly.
 
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