An Interesting Question for Tom Tancredo

I hear the same thing from other Democrats as what she said to Tom Tancredo a few days ago in Waterloo. When are they going to realize how much Democratic policies over the years are responsible for the situation we are in. (Not that a lot of Republicans have clean hands in this matter either.)

I fully support LEGAL immigration. & I fully support every human being being treated with the God given dignity he or she deserves. But I also fully support what the Church has to say on this, IN ITS ENTIRETY!

look at this passage from the Catechism of the Catholic Church to see what the Church has to say on the subject:

2241 The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin. Public authorities should see to it that the natural right is respected that places a guest under the protection of those who receive him.

Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants' duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.

Not the parts I emphasized. The Catholic teaching does not require that there be unlimited immigration. Just the opposite. It allows the country to impose limits & conditions. & look at what obligations Catholic teaching puts on the immigrant. In particular it requires them to obey the laws of the country. That includes the immigration laws. The implication is that the country has the right to enforce those laws, arrest those who break them & deport them. (See Jimmy Akin's post Immigration & Catholic Teaching & The Roman Sacristan's The other part of the Church's teaching on immigration & Fr. Stephanos's What does the Church teach about immigrants? for more on this.)

So, they next time someone tries to say that you shouldn't call them "illegal" immigrants, that they are undocumented, you can tell them that that isn't how Catholic Social Teaching sees it. According to Church teaching they are illegal.