Pro-Migration Groups Push Pope Leo XIV to Cheerlead for Mass Migration
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So far, the pope is responding with generalities, without detailed policy implications or direct opposition to Trump’s popular expulsion of illegal migrants.
“In communities of ancient Christian tradition, such as those in the West, the presence of many brothers and sisters from the South of the world must be welcomed as an opportunity, through an exchange that renews the face of the Church,” the Pope declared on October 5.
“Often [migrants] maintain their strength while seeking a better future, despite the obstacles they face,” Leo said Oct. 2 during a meeting with Catholic immigration advocates.
“You can read in [his comments] what you want when it comes to the details of government policy, responded Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors lower levels of migration in American society.
The mistake people make – both inside and outside the Catholic Church or any other Church – is to imagine that the lessons of the Gospel and the Church Fathers are somehow a 10-point white paper on how we should operate. [immigration] policy. In fact they [provide] general rules for how to think about these questions, and different people will reach different conclusions.
However, there is a large pro-migration industry – and supportive media – that wants to rally Pope Leo XIV to their controversial and high-risk cause.
“Pope Leo will stand with Catholic leaders to protect immigrant rights, advocates say,” said an Oct. 8 Politico report, which added:
A delegation including El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz and members of the Hope Border Institute, an advocacy group partnering with the Archdiocese of El Paso, presented the pope with hundreds of letters and a four-minute video from immigrants detailing their experiences as the Trump administration’s deportation campaign continues to remove thousands of people from the United States.
“He watched the whole thing and his eyes at the end were filled with tears as he looked at it,” Dylan Corbett, the group’s founding executive director, who was present at the meeting, told POLITICO. “At the end of the meeting he said: ‘You are with me and I am with you, and the Church will continue to accompany and stand with the migrants.’ »
“Corbett said he and other members of the delegation looked forward to seeing the pope continue to “show solidarity,” but were now focused on bringing the pope’s message to the United States and supporting immigrants on the ground, Politico reported.
Leo thanked “for our commitment to immigrant peoples and also said that he hopes that the bishops’ conference will speak out on this issue,” said Msgr. Marc Seitzbased in El Paso, Texas, and one of the most aggressive advocates for the migrant cause, told the Associated Press.
“The Migrant Jubilee and the Mission Jubilee are both being celebrated in Rome this weekend,” the pro-immigration United States Conference of Catholic Bishops reported in October:
Vatican dicasteries [agencies] for Promoting Integral Human Development and for Culture and Education and the U.S. Bishops’ Services for Migration and Refugees were among the co-sponsors of the conference, which was held in Rome October 1-3 just before the Migrants’ Jubilee and the Missions Jubilee on October 4-5.
Amy Pope, who heads the United Nations’ pro-migration agency, also used the meetings to present the new pope as an ally to her cause:
Amy Pope was appointed to the IOM post by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration aides, and she quickly helped fund the movement of more migrants to many Midwestern cities. “Our goal at IOM is to enable the choice to migrate,” IOM head Amy Pope told National Public Radio in 2023. The arrival of migrants has been a boon for investors in low-wage businesses and rental properties.
Catholic bishops are using tougher language and staging a public protest to denounce Trump’s popular policies. In September, Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington, called Trump’s grassroots policies “aggression.” [that] seeks to make life unbearable for undocumented immigrants.
So far, these bishops and advocacy groups have failed to convince the new pope to directly denounce Trump’s policies.
“The fact that the pope is not saying that, you know, ICE needs to stop doing He added:
In a sense, the immigration issue is a bit like the death penalty issue for Catholics, because there are various ways to interpret even official teaching. The official teaching of the Church is that countries have the right to control their borders for the common good, but also that they have a responsibility to the most disadvantaged in the world… And so if you are the Pope, you are going to try to balance these views and ensure that the discussion on the issue remains within the parameters, within the limits that the Church has set, but without adhering to specific political directives. [for Earthly government]because that’s not what church is.
For example, Catholic theology requires believers to help the stranger, Krikorian explained.
This New Testament parable of the good man who helps a wounded stranger is described by many pro-immigration Catholics as a religious commandment to allow migrants to settle in the United States, he said:
But Old Testament scriptures describe the stranger as a traveler or temporary visitor, but not as a settler or new member of the community, Krikorian explained. “The idea that ‘You were once foreigners in Egypt’ means you have to let all illegal immigrants cross the Mexican border is simply absurd,” he added.
President Joe Biden’s deputies and allies have used this claim by spending billions of dollars to secretly invite and finance the migration of approximately ten million migrants to cities across the United States. Billions of dollars have been given to Catholic migrant groups and the United Nations migration agency.
On their way north, many invited and supported migrants were also robbed and raped by gangs or died in jungles, deserts, roads and rivers. “There were two images from his perilous journey north that he couldn’t get out of his head,” Albinson Linares of Telemundo.com wrote in January 2023 about a Venezuelan migrant named Johan Torres:
The first was to know how a [migrant] a person who resisted a robbery in Mexico was killed with a machete; the other happened in the jungle, when he saw a man leave his young daughter behind, waist-deep in mud.
“He left her there, lying in the mud and crying. And I couldn’t do anything because I was dying of exhaustion. But I can’t forget that,” he said, with tears in his eyes.
The death toll was so high in Panama’s Darien Gap jungle that Mayorkas pushed Panama to create a safer coastal route via high-speed boats that transported migrants to Mayorkas-funded buses.
In Mexico, the northward flow of migrants has paid off the cartels and coyotes with billions of dollars in loans. These flights were made possible by Mayorkas’ decision to allow migrants to quickly obtain jobs in the United States that would allow them to repay their smuggling debts to coyotes. This funneling of money to the cartels was only possible because Mayorkas imposed catch-and-release policies on Border Patrol, which is required by law to detain migrants until their asylum claims are adjudicated.
This vast migration has caused enormous damage to the ability of ordinary Americans to earn a decent living, afford housing, or raise their families.
In the United States, Americans have also lost the attention and empathy of left-wing politicians and the sympathy of leftists who now prefer to focus their powerful empathy on grateful migrants rather than migrants. alienated, poor, discardedand normal Americans.
Trump has all but eliminated the influx of needy migrants – as well as providing subsidies to pro-migration groups and their many employees.
Migrants have also sparked a shift in empathy within the U.S. Catholic Church, from ordinary Americans to eager migrants and their vulnerable children.
Migrants “are missionaries of hope for us, because their presence among us honestly sanctifies who and where we are,” said Sister Norma Pimentel, who runs a now-empty migrant reception center in the Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, Texas.
Once Americans encounter migrants, she said, “they will stop thinking of them as someone invading my space.” [community and jobs]but rather as someone to whom I have the opportunity to be able to show the presence of God.
But Trump’s election, she lamented, sent the message that migrants are “invaders who are coming to take our land, destroy our America and take our jobs.”
