Catholics want to set US immigration policy?

Question

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following the President signing legislation authorizing 700 miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, Catholic Charities USA today called on both President Bush and Congress to finish the job by acting swiftly to enact just and fair comprehensive immigration reform...
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Is it maybe time to start levying taxes against religious institutions in our country that now feel they have assumed the power to govern etc? Will we end up with 'vote Catholic' etc? Do you support religious groups trying to run our country, on either the immigration issue, or others?

Answer 1

My dear-I dont see it personally that the Catholic or any Religious group is trying to take the place of Government rather they try to say(This people are human and we should be very open to face the truth)treat them as Citizen and ......according to the news writer .......they told the congress to finish their job by acting swiftly to enact just and fair comprehensive immigration reform.My dear,let us be very sincere with ourselves according to statistics the Immigrants once documented add to lots of income both in Tax or otherwise.In fact immigrants has played or still plan very useful role in our society though we may have the bad ones which is normal because in every 12 their most be a Judas.So to cut it short the Church or nat Religious /Organisation trying to say something on the positive side of the Immigrant should be allow to view their point and if in any way to help them.Let us love one another..Peace!!!

Answer 2

The United States citizens how donate to and volunteer time with Catholic Charities USA have just as much right to influence US policy as any other group of US citizens including the Democratic and Republican Parties, the Moral Majority, ACLU, PETA, NRA, AARP, etc.

This is what democracy is all about.

Are you trying to say that Catholic citizens should have fewer rights than other citizens?

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

No not in any way shape or form.

What are Catholics in the pews to make of their bishops’ costly, all-out commitment to a version of immigration reform that would swell today’s high legal immigration, undermine workers’ bargaining power and do little to curb future illegal entries?
The bishops’ lobbying goals for immigration are radical, expansive, and generous to a fault. They explicitly endorse the two guest worker programs, amnesty for illegals, and lavish increases in regular family and employment immigration in Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy’s proposed legislation — the Safe America and Orderly Immigration Act (SAOIA). (Many of the provisions of this bill had been incorporated into other Senate immigration bills by early 2006.) The bill’s breathtakingly expansionist proposals, and its paucity of serious border control and enforcement measures, suggest that US Catholic Conference lobbyists did their work well in the drafting.
Using a guest worker program as political cover, the Kennedy-McCain bill and similar others would in effect amnesty ten to eleven million illegal immigrants that settled here before May 2005. Without waiting to see the labor market and fiscal effects of that mass amnesty, Kennedy-McCain adds on 400,000 or more guest workers a year from abroad. Both categories of guest workers and their dependents would be eligible to apply for legal permanent residence after four years here.
That waiting period is necessary to support the fiction of the bill’s backers and the bishops that this arrangement is not a widely opposed “amnesty,” but “earned legalization.” The employment category of regular immigration visas for skilled and unskilled aliens would more than double to 290,000 a year. Immigration of relatives of citizens and resident aliens would nearly double from its present ceiling of 480, 000. Kennedy-McLain, according to some estimates, would raise overall immigration to 25 million over the next ten years.
But the bishops’ wish list does not stop with Kennedy-McCain. They want much kinder, gentler and less stringent immigration enforcement. Their congressional testimony, speeches and statements in recent years claim that the existing US immigration system “ . . .which can lead to family separation, suffering and even death, is morally unacceptable and must be reformed.” The bishops also express increasing concern that “. . . the U.S. immigration regime violates basic human dignity and has placed the lives of migrants at risk.”1
The implication of these categorical moral judgments is that responsibility for the migration chaos is America’s alone: the poor choices of the migrants themselves and their governments, the recklessness of some migrants, and the greed of the smugglers and other predators are not major factors in the family separation, injury and death the bishops deplore.
Nor do the bishops display any recognition that U.S. policymakers and enforcement officials also have considerable concerns for human rights of migrants, as well as conscientious procedures and safeguards to protect them, often with some sacrifice of the efficiency or personal security of enforcement agents.
No ,no and hell no,I do not support this control of the US government by any church.

Answer 4

About 94% of U.S. immigrants from Mexico, were baptized as Catholic.
The Catholics are losing a good number of their followers, to other religions, once they come into the United States.

Answer 5

His venture had no longer something to do with immigration reform yet with all individuals exceedingly blacks getting taken care of the two. Now they're attempting to apply his words for unlawful extraterrestrial beings, do they have no shame what so ever or what. Jesse Jackson is a fraud and all of us understand that. He might quite have been against unlawful extraterrestrial beings pondering the wear and tear they're instilling to the Black American.

Answer 6

Try looking at reality when you post questions. Catholics are not as hot to have the illegals stay here as the dummycrats are but you are not complaining about them. Remember each illiterate, illegal is a vote for the dummycrats because like You they are too dumb to see through the smokescreen the dummycrats keep using.

Answer 7

Take a look at history whenever the "church" has been involved in any form of politics, people are subjected to untold misery in the name of "Christianity". Our founding fathers were men of real & true vision, they understood the tyrannical nature of organized religions officiated with a monarchial style of heirarchy. That is why they provided for the SEPARATION of religion and Government. The dividing line between the religious zealots and the governmental crazies needs to remain in place for the continued safety of the populace of the nation. They wield enough power behind the scenes with their lobbyists.

Answer 8

I wish them luck. Most of it is "smoke blown up the 'ol bum" if you know what I mean. Many religious institutions (not just Catholics) put in their two cents regarding "world issues". Its how it has always been...I do not think it will make much of a difference.

Answer 9

I don't care who sets the immigration policy, as long as it keeps the Mexicans in their own country.

Answer 10

Is religion involved? I guess since you hate Muslims too.