Rye…you are right. We all believe the Biblical and church teachings about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, etc, etc. The problem is this: HOW? To what extent should TAXPAYER money or CHURCH FUNDS be used to pay millions of illegals benefits, and calling that “God’s work?” IF taxpayer money were not used to pay for their free health care, free education, automatic citizen-status for kids born here of illegals, undercutting Americans with cheap wage rate, crime like MS13 gang domination, clogging this work force with less-than-high school educated workers…etc.etc., they would go home, because the church will not do it, and has no money to do it… AND if they tried, the parishoners would rebell because we need the money to run our parishes…and…surprise, surprise, take care of OUR OWN POOR. So—>NO freebies…no illegal hiring by employers…they leave! No carrot to stay…they go home, because the Pew study says that the majority of illegals had jobs in Mexico before coming here. (Heck–they can work for the companies that have taken jobs TO Mexico from Americans here!.) If an illegal came to my door, hungry, and somehow I found him to BE illegal, I’d call the Border Patrol (good luck), and then feed him. Feeding the hungry doesnt mean I have to feed a guy who is stealing from my home and then give him the tv !!
Believe me, I’m in total agreement with you. Perhaps I didn’t say some things correctly in my post. I think I’m just having a hard time which perhaps some others are having - I’ll try to explain - it’s a conflict between what I feel God would want me to do and how much, as an American, I/we’re willing to take. On the one hand, I think about how I’ve been taught if I see someone in need who is for instance say, hungry, I was brought up not to give them money but to go get that person something to eat. In my mind and heart, I go back to the whole situation of thinking about “whenever you did this to the least of your bretheren you did this to me…” I would hate not to help someone and then after I die have Jesus come to me and say “Why didn’t you feed me?” I have grown up all over the world and this is the only country i know of that is so laxidasical about it’s borders - but then I hear some of these Bishops - one being the Bishop in Orlando coming out and saying we need to help these people regardless of the US laws - I hear this (and of course I paraphrased what this Bishop said) - and I want to tell that Bishop - fine, you want to help, then you start giving 25% of your budget to doing all of this stuff. I know what I’m about to say is somewhat conspiratoriale sounding, but did anyone here ever wonder if these illegal aliens coming over from Mexico were let say Muslim instead of Catholic, if this might be a different situation? The majority of those crossing are Christian/Catholic- (I do have a source to back this if anyone doesn’t believe me) - I just don’t want to see our tax dollars going to do things that encourage them to stay and continue to stay - like allowing them to have drivers liscenses - and it makes me so angry that they do cross the border and seem to expect some of these things- I don’t know of any others that came to America during the Ellis Island time that didn’t expect to learn a new language - it does seem that more and more we are being expected to make accomadations for those that speak Spanish instead of English - and why should they not have to follow the rules that other immigrants from other countries that come here have to follow? I am by no means an isolationist, but really, do all of you believe that the Catholic Church would be so big on giving these aliens so much if they were Muslim or anything other than Christian/Catholic? There might be some (IMHO)- but not nearly to the extent it is now. This is one of those areas where I can’t see an answer to fix it - but I sure don’t want to continue to encourage it which I believe is what’s happening when the illegals come here and seem to get a lot of freebees.
God Bless
Rye
