….I am Mexican American, my parents are from Mexico, and most of my family is from Mexico or lives in Mexico. I am a retired L.A. Deputy Sheriff; my wife is a retired L.A. County nurse; we have seen this abuse firsthand. Many Mexicans have a difficult time accepting this truth simply because we see this in terms of skin color and race instead of objectively. Our race becomes the apex of victimhood, and our brown skin becomes our truth, even above our Christianity. Most Latinos believe that the immigration issue is racially motivated because this is the constant narrative they hear from the liberal Hispanic mainstream media and the English (liberal) mainstream legacy media.
An extended family member of mine who is here illegally from Mexico told me that when he was living in Mexico, he did not practice his Catholic faith, but he went to a retreat in Los Angeles and he encountered Jesus Christ in a very real way and he went through an interior conversion. My cousin told me, “I can’t go back to Mexico because I am a new person, I am a new creation now that I have surrendered my life to Jesus Christ at that retreat in Los Angeles.” I told my cousin, “Jesus is the God of the United States and Mexico.” You should go back to your family and serve Jesus Christ in Mexico and lead your wife and kids to heaven….
From JesseRomero.com
I appreciate everything he had to say except the last sentence. It’s obvious that his relative is a new person in Christ and loves this country and wants to stay. I think Mr. Romero could have encouraged his relative to set himself straight with the immigration department and proceed from there, rather than telling him to go back to Mexico.
And what about the man’s family? If he were to set himself straight with immigration, as you suggest, his family in Mexico would still be without a husband and father. Why would that be good?
To set himself straight with US immigration, the man will have to go back in Mexico, file his application at the US Embassy there, pay the fee, and wait at the legal immigration line.
He will have to be vetted by immigration agents thoroughly. He will have to show proof that he has no police record. (For this reason, it will be better for him to self-deport now than be deported, as deportation will be recorded and he will have a much more difficult time to re-enter the US.)
Too, he will have to show immigration that he is healthy, will not be an economic burden to society (i.e., having a marketable skill or business), will assimilate into the culture and learn the language. Then he will have to wait and wait and wait until given permission (visa or permanent resident green card) to enter.
It has (we hope) nothing to do with race but may have to do with professions or skills or having a business that can offer employment US citizens and legal residents. If the US government decides that the country needs more doctors, then doctor immigrants will be given priority processing.They have different requirements for a visa to work, live, and study; same with engineers, computer experts, nurses, etc. There are different visas for different professions.
The process may seem difficult for Mexicans who think they are being targeted for race reasons. But think of other brown-skinned people from farther parts of the world who cannot simply walk through the southern border and who are waiting at the legal immigration bottleneck. I’m a Filipino-American and it took me eight years on the waiting line to enter the US legally, and that was 50 years ago. I know of new immigrants who waited 20 years and that must have been horrific. It is simply unfair that Mexicans and prople from the nearer Latino countries are given priority processing at the border and need not wait for decades to enter.
That long waiting period was never addressed by any high government official until Trump. When I heard him talked about the long waiting period for legal immigrants during the campaign, I knew he had my vote.
God bless us.
In my community there was a tatted-up Latino immigrant who was killed by a white American in self defense during a road rage incident. The Latino’s family wanted to make it about race, but it was about the law and defending yourself and this isn’t Mexico where you can just threaten someone else without consequence. Happy that the jury of fine Americans acquitted the American defendant of murder charges.
Eric Estrada made history by portraying a Latino officer in the TV show CHiPs. The 70s were great.
Little known fact: in the original Dragnet, on radio, Joe Friday’s partner was Hispanic. Would have been carried over to the TV show, but the actor unfortunately passed away. Would have been interesting!
Did you know real Irish immigrants joined police, military and parish councils in order prove loyalty to the USA? now that’s assimilation. Take a peek of 69th new york regiment from first bull run to overland campaign. I’m sorta sick of illegals bro.
Why would I donate my family’s money to the Church so that LibCaths can sneak illegal immigrants into the country?
Jesus never broke immigration laws. His followers shouldn’t either. Nobody should.
My stepfather was of Spanish descent. His parents were from Spain. He was a citizen, but some of his family was not. The non-citizens made sure their immigration papers and green cards were up to date. One sheriff in our area in the 1940s was an American of Mexican descent named Mendoza. If my memory is correct his first name was Michael.
It is best for everyone that we follow reasonable laws that benefit both sides. No one is safe otherwise, neither the citizen nor the illegal crosser. Jesse Romero is right that children do much better in stable homes, not dragged back and forth across borders.
Regarding my last post, third and fourth line, the man’s name was John Mendoza and worked for the sheriff’s office as a deputy. It seems he did become a sheriff before he retired.
Sorry! I need to make a correction to the last line of my last post. I should have written “It seems he did NOT become a sheriff before he retired.” At least I could not find evidence online that he had. He seemed to be much respected by the citizenry, though. My non-Hispanic grandparents lived near him and his family and liked him.
If there was a wrong decision, Biden made it and the Dems supported it. If there was a responsible decision, Biden avoided it and the Dems simply looked the other way. If there was a law-abiding decision, Biden attacked it and the Dems frothed against it. If there was a corrupt decision, Biden authorized it and the Dems defended it. Over and over and over these patterns repeat…..
California, wake up that Democrats are unfit to govern and they destabilize and impoverish and ruin societies.
This is not a story about immigration. This is a story about a guy who had a religious experience and was on a high. Don’t you remember what it was like when you first accepted Jesus? I mean, the police officer gave the correct answer, but his logic is flawed. The United States has taken and plundered lands that are not theirs using the Doctrine of Manifest Destiny as if it was their right to take land and to proselytize whatever “savage” peoples they encountered. The U.S. also has a history of bringing in people from China and Mexico to use them and then kick them out when they were finished with them. This country will not know peace until it recognizes the sins it has committed in the name of country and God.
Today’s immigration issue is 100% about race. I mean, why do we want to bring the white South African refugees to this country if we don’t want to allow the brown people who are in desperate situations into the country. I’m not saying open all borders or give people free rides, but let’s do the Christian thing here. Didn’t Jesus say, “By this everyone will know that you are my dsiciples if you love one another.”
I want people of my own race and culture. Im proud of being white. We used to have freedom of association. Remember that?
Every country has plundered some other country. It is often when a country becomes corrupt and immoral that a more powerful nation takes it over. Look at the Old Testament.
When slaves were being brought into the United States, the Muslims were taking slaves from European countries and still do. No country is innocent. Everyone discriminates against someone or some group, rightly or wrongly, and if they say they do not, they are not speaking truthfully.
For example, Cortez did not conquer the Aztecs by himself. Other native tribes that had been massacred by the Aztecs fought with him. And on and on it goes.
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Refugees and immigrants are two different stories. Legal immigrants are those who file their application at the US Embassy in their home country, pay the fee, undergo thorough interviews, and wait and wait AND WAIT in line before they could enter the US.
Hopefully, such a process has nothing to do with race.
Now, about refugees or asylum seekers:
The fastest way to migrate to the US legally is to apply for asylum (as a refugee)
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According to International Law, asylum seekers and refugees must be interviewed, given emergency relief, and admitted into the country immediately.
They must be provided by the host country with appropriate accommodations, food, clothing, health care, protection from enemies, job opportunities, children’s education, even the right to own property if staying for an extended period.
They also must go back to their home countries when the danger to their lives is over.
But in order to qualify for asylum, they must prove beyond doubt that they are running away from the horrors of war, discrimination, persecution, torture, or otherwise threatened with death because of their race, nationality, gender, religion, political activities, and social affiliations.
Escapees from communist countries, such as Russia, Cuba, North Korea, etc. are usually granted asylum because they are escaping from communism. The Russian author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn was an example of a political asylee, so was Mikhail Baryshnikov, the ballet dancer.
Ferdinand Marcos, the deposed president of the Philippines, was granted asylum even though the Philippines is not a communist country, because his life was in danger had he stayed there after the “People Power” revolution. Before that, his political opponent Benigno Aquino was also granted asylum for political reasons and threats to his life.
POVERTY IS NOT A GROUND FOR ASYLUM. Surprise! Poverty is not a ground for asylum. Pope Francis should be told that. If poverty was the reason for asylum, more than three-quarters of the world’s population will be at our doorsteps.
Unfortunately, the majority of illegal aliens who jump the southern border are not qualified for asylum, so they file fake asylum claims. They can’t prove their lives to be in danger because of war, or political persecution. So they lie.
The truth is, they want to better their lives by living in the US, where there are flush toilets. (Or they want to see snow.) Those are not reasons for asylum. So, they lie.
A clever way to bet on staying is for the illegals to come in huge numbers. They organize and come by the caravans, by the hordes, by the thousands – they came through Biden’s open border, waving their flags as weapons to destroy the US and its immigration laws.
US authorities are overwhelmed by their great numbers, so they gave them a special app that the Biden admin installed on their free cellphones, on which they set up dates for their own court hearings.
Because there are millions and millions of asylum claimants, the court dates timeline can stretch from just the next day up to 10 or 20 years going forward – a waiting period that asylum seekers take advantage by staying and working while receiving free housing, food, clothing, health care, transportation, and education until the day they appear in court. Or not appear at all.
The Biden admin also authorized non-governmental organizations (NGO) like Catholic Charities to help resettle asylum claimants. CC does not care whether the applicants are fake or not, they just resettle them in nice hotels with everything free. Oftentimes, straight from the cartels. Then they are set free to roam and tour the interior of the country.
That is what Trump calls “catch-and-release.” Hence, Trump wants asylum seekers to remain in Mexico until they are called for their court hearing. He also shut down the Biden’s free cellphone app.
Of course, the illegals don’t like that. They like the Biden system better, when they were allowed to enter freely through the open border and treated with dignity while they destroy the country, even commit crimes and annoy Americans. They continue to demand free housing, food stamps, free winter clothes, free hospitalization… falalalala!
While the going was great, Catholic Charities also taught them how file (or lie? in) their applications. If they needed legal assistance or interpreters, CC provided them. Catholic Charities helped them, no matter if they’re thieves, murderers, kidnappers, rapists, child traffickers, etc. Just gave them what they needed or wanted.
Catholic Charities did not use its own money for their “charitable” work. All that was funded by US taxpayers.
The bishops say it’s not the duty of Catholic Charities to investigate illegal aliens. Their (our) Catholic duty is to give charity. The bishops point out that investigating migrants is the work of the government, not Catholic Charities. So it’s now the Trump administration’s duty to determine which applicants to admit and which to refuse.
Fine. So now, Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, caught on with the clever game and stopped the whole kit-and-kaboodle (temporarily?) No more funding for Catholic Charities until a more efficient system of vetting is installed. And applicants who were caught lying or otherwise unqualified must be deported. Same with those who have been turned down by immigration courts but refused to leave – they, too, must be deported.
The bishops are enraged. The Pope sent a letter to USCCB encouraging them to work against Trump’s mass deportation. But Church authorities failed to realize that using government money for charity is not charity at all – that’s contractual work. Contractors must do what the government says, even if it’s illegal or immoral. Catholic Charities has become an arm of the evil Democratic party that violated immigration law by opening the border during Biden’s time.
(Also, an example: Catholic Charities was known to provide interpreters for pregnant non-English speaking women when they went to Planned Parenthood for abortion. All because the evil Democrats required it when they made abortion legal. All for the money CC received from the government.)
The bishops now may have to tell the illegals exactly what they should do. And of course, they don’t like it: Go home. The US has the right to enforce its own immigration law, and you broke it. Obey the law or be deported.
So, sorry. The only way the illegals might be able to get back into the US is to file their applications at the US embassy in their countries, be interviewed and investigated, and wait and wait and wait – AND WAIT – in line until they are approved (or not) to enter.
Filipino legal immigrants are made to wait 15 years or more before they can enter and live in the U.S. That’s the LEGAL way. And no, the bishops never showed any compassion to LEGAL immigrants made to wait at the front doorsteps for many, many years.
It’s truly unfair that the legals are made to wait for decades while the illegal border-jumpers got priority processing.
Pope Francis told the US Bishops to oppose mass deportations. Ha. I’m not following the pope on that one. He’s utterly wrong. Just like he’s utterly wrong about the death penalty. Hoping for a better pope soon.
The Vatican has a wall all around it, and the Vatican just increased penalties for illegal entry. Let’s follow Vatican policy, not the pope’s misguided ideas.
I think the Pope, Bishops and Priests who are for open borders, should get a job like the rest of us who are now living paycheck to paycheck with the high inflation because of all the government corruption. They have no idea what it is like as they sit in the million dollar mansions. My mother was right, if you base your faith on the clergy, you will lose your faith.
Why is our government paying for illegals to be here? Why are we providing them with hotel rooms, food, clothing, and education? They are here for the grift, as any lowlife would when he sees a good opportunity to leech. Pope Francis has it all wrong. Send all the illegals home. Their families can go with them if they don’t want to be broken apart. Boo hoo, they brought this on themselves.
If someone steals a car, should we let him keep the car because he relies on it for transportation? He was just trying to improve his life, after all. He has human dignity. If a kid cheats to get an A in a class, should we let him keep the A because it would violate his human dignity to make him face the consequence of his cheating? He was only trying to better his place in life, after all.
I’m so glad Trump and Noem have saved $59 million from being spent housing and feeding illegals in New York hotels. Every national park has signs that warn you not to feed the wildlife because they need to learn to obtain food themselves. The same principle should lead us to not feed the illegals, and not to encourage them to come here, and not to welcome them when they get here.
Catholic Charities is facilitating illegal immigration, and in doing so is decidedly un-christian.
To the woman wondering why some are welcoming Afrikaners while not wanting Latinos who are poorer and more desperate. Well, that may not be the case. Many wealthy Afrikaners left long ago. There are Whites in South Africa now who are living in tent cities and surviving on charity; they are not hired due to the racial preferences in place for many jobs. The ones who have money, generally have land. After their land is taken they will be poor too. As to why they are welcomed; they are noted for being very hard workers at skilled trades and professions. They have a very low rate of public benefits use in less than a year. This is often not the case for other immigrant groups.