Where is the Catholic outrage over recent American immigration policies?

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If their countries are so wonderful and safe to live in, and safe and legal passage to the US - or anywhere - so easy to obtain for all who need it, then by all means feel free to swap.places with them, and go live in their countries. After all, it should.be a cinch to get back out legally if it ain’t so grand there, right?
 
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“Just” would include a penalty of some kind for cutting in line. In addition would you be willing to trade letting them stay but forfeiting any future right to vote?
 
I have a rule with my children that I don’t repeat myself; they either have to catch it the first time or be surprised later.

Scroll upthread. You won’t have to go far. 🙂
 
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Alrighty! You and the USCCB can foot the bill. But, I’m not increasing my contributions. You’ll have to be thrifty and creative to get what you want.
 
We need on the domestic side to reform immigration law as it badly needs reforms.

Another would be to work with the other nations to resolve this issue.

Open borders are not the solution.

On a more local level, our parishes can help sponsor refugees. It has been done in my parish.
 
We’re already footing the bill for massive immigration enforcement and detention centers. And just wait’ll you see that Wall . . .
 
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I have a rule with my children that I don’t repeat myself
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Veiled insult plus laziness. I’ll assume it was unimportant then!

Here are my Solutions:
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Where is the Catholic outrage over recent American immigration policies? Social Justice
I’ve suggested several solutions: Sanction Refugee Countries Military Action Against Cartels Safe Zone in Mexico UN Coalition I have yet to hear or see a better plan.
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We’re already footing the bill for massive immigration enforcement and detention centers. And just wait’ll you see that Wall . .
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That’s why I’m proposing taking drastic measures to hold the offending countries accountable for creating this mess.
 
Says the guy who couldn’t scroll up 10 posts to find that I already answered the same question for someone else 11 minutes ago . . .
 
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Jesus Mary and Joseph certainly ran away (to Egypt)!

I highly doubt they had to queue up at the local equivalent of an Egyptian ermbassy, or at the border, spend time in detention, fill in miles of paperwork in triplicate, or fork out $$$ for immigration lawyers as people often need to do today.

Christ says ‘whatsoever you do to the least of these, that you do to Me’. Criminals and children certainly qualify as ‘the least’, and the true measure of a person and a society is in how well they treat them.
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Putting a 1st century filter on a 21st century problem isn’t going to address the issue.

Have you ever attempted to immigrate to another country? I lived in Saudi Arabia as a civilian and had to go through miles and miles of paperwork, subject to the weirdest medical exam I’ve ever had, wait seven months for a visa while living with my in-laws in the UK (I had to leave for a week and then come back to “reset” my six month visit visa). I stayed in the UK because it was easier to get a quick flight out to join my husband in Saudi than it was to try and get one from all the way in the states.

Our immigration process is nothing compared to what other places put you through. The thing is other countries don’t have the volume of requests for entry at any level that we have here. The wait to get into the US has always, historically, been a long one.

So yes, every nation has a process. And it’s a pain.

It’s also life. You’re applying to reside in another country, and that nation is 100% entitled to check you out before granting you that permission.
 
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So if you agree open borders are not the solution, how should we treat those at the border?

Right now children are being separated from their detained parents and that is cruel but if they are detained with their parents that would also be cruel.

So, what is the alternative that does not provoke outrage?
 
You really don’t get a better life any other way. There’s truth in that, and you’re misinterpreting it.
 
If I had a spare room - or spare space on my couch for that matter - I might consider it. The most likely people to commit crimes against me or you are our own home-bred family.and neighbours, so I’m not buying the needless scare you’re selling.
 
Do you give rides to hitchhikers and homeless people?

That’s about the same level of risk.
 
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