I have changed my position on imigration, and no longer support amnesty. I had long taken flak from my fellow conservatives for my views, defending amnesty because the illegals are usually Catholics and hard workers, whom we need to keep our population growing. However, I shredded that erring view earlier today, when the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps sent me a letter. A money-plea it was, but the plea rolled on for eight pages, with such disturbing facts as
I. Haman traffickers commonly rape female aliens.
II. The Mexican government encourages illegal immigration, so that that nation's elite class can profit from the portion of the American wages which is sent back to Mexico, i.e. rich exploiting poor (Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon are giving conservatives a bad name!).
III. Drug trafficking and related violence (lest we forget)
IV. Illegals often destroy and steal property of those living near the border.
V. ONE ILLEGAL'S JOURNAL WAS DISCOVERED WITH ARABIC WRITING INSIDE!
I concluded that however good it would be to legalize the c. 12,000,000 illegal immigrants in America, they would most likely refuse to assimilate (like in France); even if we then increased border security, it would leave foreigners with a precedent for hope that crossing the border illegally could someday land them American citizenship. I also made an analogy to the dogmatic situation in the Church. Whenever we allow that Baptism isn't necessary, or that men outside the Church can be
saved, the gates of Hell break loose. Now, I'm not obligated to take the hard line on the border, but neither am I obliged to follow Fr. Feeney's wise rejection of the Baptism of Desire [anyone with a bad view of the Feenyites, check out catholicism.org, and read the article on Baptim of Desire, in Resources]. It is just the best thing for America-and all the friendly Latinos!Still, we'll need to do some stuff to offset not granting amnesty, simply,
A. Increase the flow of legal immigration, and make the process more efficient (except for Muslims, who hould have to make an honest conversion to Roman Catholicism as a prerequisite), and more importantly
B. Have more children. That means priests should tell their paritioners contraception is a mortal sin, and we should...
posted by crusader88 @ 12:31 AM
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What an excellent and honest article. I have always felt that no matter how I felt about a topic, I am willing to read, discuss, listen to others ... and if I find I was wrong about something, I am willing to admit it.
I'm not perfect and I have had to change my mind on more than one topic over my lifetime.
Thank you for sharing.
Debbie Hamilton
Right Truth
http://www.righttruth.typepad.com
We take in about a million legal immigrants a year - and very few of them European at that. How many more do you think will benefit the country, in view of our welfare benefits and entitlements?
Until around 1968, we allowed about 300k a year from varied countries in groups small enough that they would assimilate to our American values and culture.
I'd say the valve needs to be closed to a trickle at this point, not opened wider.
I wrote a longer response, but it accidently got erased, so I'll just say
1. Our native population's pop. is below replacement
2. Most of our immigrants, unlike Europe's, are Catholic
3. The only immoral part of their culture is the MTV stuff we started
4. We can brook Spanish and divided nat'l loyalties more than a geezer pop. vs. Muslim Europe
5. It's the more compassionate thing to do
6. I don't support Social[ist] Security
This is kind of a delayed response but only 10% of immigrants are practicing Catholics.
A response more belated yet, but 10% Mass attendence is better than what we have right now in America. c. 22% of the population is Catholic, and roughly 19% of those go to Mass weekly- thats about 4% percent of all Americans going to Mass, to which a 10% attendence by immigrants compares favorably.
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