[ClintonBeGone]

He's right. With free trade, all the trading partners and their people will prosper.

[knuthom]

"Some call them 'illegals.' But according to the market model, they are better described as entrepreneurs without assets, pursuing the American dream," said Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of San Marcos, Guatemala.

It doesn't matter what you call them. They are still here illegally. Why not have a "Guatemalan Dream"? We will share our ideas about liberty, individual responsibility and free enterprise with you, gratis.

[ikka]

"Some call them 'illegals.' But according to the market model, they are better described as entrepreneurs without assets, pursuing the American dream," said Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of San Marcos, Guatemala.

When the good Bishop starts ex-communicating the drug lords and goons who run most of Guatemala, and publicly speaking out against a corrupt Guatemalan govt, then maybe I will cut him some slack.

[Travis McGee]

[grizzly84]

Being able to walk into any hospital and get free treatment without paying the bill sounds like freeloading to me.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Illegal immigrants "are not free-loaders" but hard-working people who are seeking better lives for their families because social and economic improvements are not readily available to the Latin American poor, said a Guatemalan bishop."

Be that as it may it does not give them the right to be here illegally. It is called "The American Dream" for a reason. Americans hold the keys that access that dream. If, as the most fortunate of the world's inheritors, we decide not to fling wide open the doors to anyone who can get a foot on our soil then that is our choice, and our choice alone. If you are here illegally then you are stealing our birthright. A birthright purchased with the blood, sweat, and tears of our ancestors. Illegal invaders have NO right whatsoever to steal that birthright from any American. If they want to come to America then let them abide by the rules that have been set worth. In doing so America will give them their own key or at least an opportunity to earn one.

[Cultural Jihad]

"Some call them 'illegals.' But according to the market model, they are better described as entrepreneurs without assets, pursuing the American dream," said Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of San Marcos, Guatemala.

"They work hard, often in several jobs, supporting a way of life that many take for granted," he said April 13 in written testimony delivered before the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.

As opposed to the True Kornservatives who are wailing about the supposed infringement of their Socialist entitlements.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Preemptively; I believe that US companies that employ illegal aliens are guilty of the same.

[Brad’s Gramma]

"This is not happening in Central America and it will not happen as long as hundreds of thousands of workers are suppressed, not empowered, at the workplace," he said.

So? Make it happen! Make YOUR country as good as we've made ours!

[politicalwit]

"Some call them 'illegals.' But according to the market model, they are better described as entrepreneurs without assets, pursuing the American dream," said Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of San Marcos, Guatemala. "

Lets call them what they really are....CRIMINALS and anyone that supports this type of criminal activity is a criminal also.

[TomGuy]

Well, then, Bishop, explain why 27% of the Federal prisoners in the US are illegal aliens.

Explain why some of those illegals are bringing in third-world diseases.

Explain why some of those illegals are criminals in their own countries. Some are murders, some drug dealers, some human traffickers (a.k.a., white or human slavery).

If all these ills are only 10%, Bishop, that is still thousands.

[Roy Tucker]

I am a Catholic, but listening to bishops on trade policy is like listening to a Mexican explain the fine points of ice hockey.

[junta]

What's wrong with their countries and why don't these "hard working" people fix them?

[TheForceOfOne]

Alvaro, if you like them so much you have them, bring them into your home. Build a free hospital and put out the word to come live with you. Don't spend other peoples money, spend your own.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Illegals themselves put in more than they take out. However, it is their children that are costing the taxpayers.

[Little Ray]

Ya know, once upon time, an empire faced tremendous illegal immigration by folks seeking a better life. The illegal immigrants brought lands under cultivation that the empire's citizens wouldn't cultivate and did work they wouldn't.

That empire was Rome and those "immigrants" were Teutons, Vandals, Goths, Visigoths, etc.; i.e. 'barbarians." And they ended up destroying Rome.

Wake up! Close the freakin' gates and toss the barbarians OUT!

[swampfox98]

This article is very suspect: All I know is the Catholic Churches in my area are some of the worst offenders bringing in illegals for the tax payers to support. They flout it by having pictures on the front page of the local paper showing little Mexicans singing in the kiddie choir displacing little citizens. They brag about directing Grandmas and mamas to- be to our local hospital for free medical care. Also they are guilty of giving illegals identification cards, hoping they can eventually vote.

Also our rust belt state has sent money here for years to have free Hispanic health care fairs.

Most of the world is foaming at the mouth to be able to come to America and steal from the taxpayers. Americans are hated above all other nations because we have made living wages for many years. Because of that, we are sitting ducks here in America, and we have a president who doesn't care about the citizens, or the future of America.

[NoClones]

this biship/priest character is just another liberal in disguise...

the term that should be applied to these deadbeats is criminal!

[El Cid]

Blah, blah, blah, AND blah...
The 'Bishop' ought to remember that he represents the Kingdom of God and not the world. As such a representative he should emphasize to his flock that:

God hates a liar.
It is wrong to deceive.
There is no dishonor in being poor.
And, unless it is contrary to the laws of God, we are to follow the laws of the civil government.

It sounds like this 'Bishop' did his seminary work studying the art of social relativism and Karl Marx rather than eternal truths of the Bible...