During the past months the specter of a massive deportation campaign aimed at ripping more than ten million undocumented immigrants from their lives has realistically emerged as potential federal policy. We must label this policy proposal for what it is - an act of injustice which would stain our national honor in the same manner as the progressive dispossessions of the Native American peoples and the internment of the Japanese.
It is unthinkable that we will stand by while more than ten percent of our flock is ripped from our midst and deported. It is equally unthinkable that we as Church will witness the destruction of our historic national outreach to refugees at a time when the need to offer safe haven to refugees is growing throughout the world.
#trump-administration #cardinal-robert-mcelroy #immigration-policy #catholic-church #undocumented-immigrants
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