Posted on 05/01/2010 2:21:39 PM PDT by honestabe010
"Physician, heal yourself," said the founder of the church in which Roger Mahony is a cardinal. He is the Catholic archbishop of Los Angeles, and he should heed the founder's admonition before accusing Arizonans of intemperateness. He says that Arizona's new law pertaining to illegal immigration involves "reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are required to turn one another in to the authorities on any suspicion of documentation."
"Our highest priority today," he says, "is to bring calm and reasoning to discussions about our immigrant brothers and sisters." His idea of calm reasoning is to call Arizona's law for coping with illegal immigration "the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law." He also says that it is "dreadful," "abhorrent" and a "tragedy" and that its assumption is that "immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder and consume public resources."
The problem of illegal immigration is inflaming Mahony, who strongly implies, as advocates for illegal immigrants often do, that any law intended to reduce such illegality is "anti-immigrant." The implication is: Because most Americans believe such illegality should be reduced, most Americans are against immigrants. This slur is slain by abundant facts -- polling data that show Americans simultaneously committed to controlling the nation's southern border and to welcoming legal immigration.
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The case was laid out for Cardinal Mahoney and, after careful consideration, Cardinal Mahoney chose Barabas.
I find it ironic that the liberals are now using the fearmongering that they accused conservatives of using during the health care debate. However, it doesn’t surprise me.
Mexicans slam Arizona immigration law, but how do they treat their migrants? - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100428/wl_csm/297614
I don’t know about anybody else, but the more they cry and fight about this, the stronger my resolve becomes. I hope this law comes to Ohio soon.
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