Late last week, the Senate failed to achieve the 60 votes needed to move forward with debate on legislation to provide relief to Dreamers. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ president, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, USCCB vice president, and Bishop Joe S. Vásquez of Austin, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration, together issued the following statement:
“We are deeply disappointed that the Senate was not able to come together in a bipartisan manner to secure legislative protection for the Dreamers. With the March 5 deadline looming, we ask once again that Members of Congress show the leadership necessary to find a just and humane solution for these young people, who daily face mounting anxiety and uncertainty.
“We are also announcing a National Catholic Call-In Day to Protect Dreamers. This coming weekend, we will be asking the faithful across the nation to call their Members of Congress on Monday, Feb. 26, to protect Dreamers from deportation, to provide them a path to citizenship, and to avoid any damage to existing protections for families and unaccompanied minors in the process.
“Our faith compels us to stand with the vulnerable, including our immigrant brothers and sisters. We have done so continually, but we must show our support and solidarity now in a special way. Now is the time for action.”
Your advocacy is critical to help the nearly 1.8 million Dreamers, young people who were brought into the United States by their parents as children. They may face deportation as soon as March 6, unless Congress reaches a bipartisan deal to protect them.
Please follow these easy steps:
1. Please call 855-589-5698 to reach the Capitol switchboard and press 1 to connect to your Senator. Once you are connected to the Senator’s office, please ask the person on the phone to deliver this simple message to your legislator:
“I urge you to support a bipartisan, common sense and humane solution for Dreamers. Protect Dreamers from deportation and provide them with a path to citizenship. Reject proposals that undermine family immigration or protections for unaccompanied children. As a Catholic, I know that families are not ‘chains,’ but a blessing to be protected. Act now to protect Dreamers, our immigrant brothers and sisters.”
2. Next, please call 855-589-5698 to reach the Capitol switchboard one more time and press 2 to connect to your Representative. Once you are connected to the Representative’s offices, please ask the person on the phone to deliver this simple message to your legislator:
“I urge you to support a bipartisan, common sense and humane solution for Dreamers. Protect Dreamers from deportation and provide them with a path to citizenship. Reject proposals that undermine family immigration or protections for unaccompanied children. As a Catholic, I know that families are not ‘chains,’ but a blessing to be protected. Act now to protect Dreamers, our immigrant brothers and sisters.”
Full story at Diocese of Sacramento website.
American citizens 1st ought to be the banner. Many of our good, hard-working intelligent children are denied college entrance and other privileges their hardworking, taxpaying, law abiding parents have scrounged for years for their children to succeed. This country’s liberals/progressives are steeped in reverse discrimination, especially against white citizens. Sure appears to be prejudice to me. My children had to attend CA state qualified community colleges to get entrance (by law signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger) to attend CSU and UC universities, meanwhile, lower GPA, minorities and foreigners were given acceptance.
Its all about Commucrats gaining back POLITICAL POWER, by getting dreamers future votes, otherwise the Commucrats could really care less about them. Look how the Commucrats have used and betrayed our minorities, especially black Americans over the decades of years. The KKK is still the Commucrats militia, and historically democrats have been KKK principal and predominately members and leaders over the centuries.
Well, according to Cardinal Cupich the Church cannot any longer give hard and fast rules to the laity nor lay down the law from on high. No, the Church must pastorally accompany people and let them make up their own minds about what to do.
So where oo these bishops get off trying to lay down the law and tell Catholics explicitly what they must do and say, even providing a script to read on the phone?
This really helps on getting to heaven, right?
Fools.
Were any similar calling campaigns conducted to defend natural marriage?
Were any similar calling campaigns conducted to restrict or prohibit abortion?
Were any similar calling campaigns conducted to reverse government transgender bathroom policies?
Were any similar calling campaigns conducted when Planned Parenthood was selling body parts?
No. It’s always and only about illegal aliens. I’m sick of the Catholic bishops.
When I wrote on Feb 1 2009 regarding contacting politicians against the Freedom of Choice Act, I received a call from my dean of priests at the behest of Bishop Brom telling me not to write such stuff in the bulletin. You are right. When I urged Catholics to vote Catholic on the 5 non negotiables and then to consider other things, Bishop McElroy told me not to write anything in the bulletin. Until bishops get back on track regarding salvation and Jesus, people will tune in elsewhere, unfortunately to the Rock Church in San Diego, for teachings about Jesus. Once lost to other ecclesial communities, they won’t come back. I never could leave because we have the Eucharist.
Thought of you immediately when I read this Fr. Rich! Why did the Church grow under your pastorship? You put the tabernacle front and center and preached the gospel!
Aux Bishop Dolan tried to hijack the SD Walk for Life this year in his media interview afterwards saying DACA was why he was there! Have your own walk… this and all Walks for Life are commemorating the 60 million lives lost to abortion post Roe v Wade (hence they are held on weekends closest to Jan 22). Where’s that call in???? Can’t even consider it a double standard because immigration is not one of the non-negotiables!
How can our bishops toe the DemocRAT Party line when that Party worships at the altar of abortion and says that if one is pro-life you are not welcome in the DemocRATic Party? Any position of that Party should be shunned. Should the spineless inhabitants of the halls of Congress decide to do ‘anything’ to alleviate the anxiety of these lawbreakers (sob, sob) which includes their parents, they should not be given citizenship for many decades and they should be required to repay us citizens for the taxpayer benefits they milked the public teat for for all the years they were illegal at a minimum. If they don’t like it, then leave and don’t let the door hit your backside on the way out!
From these few readers ‘ comments it sounds as if bishops, when speaking on political issues, may have their opinions falling on deaf ears, that a group of 270 men speak on so so many political things that interest them, sometimes perhaps very good things, but ideas that may not move the faithful when such opinions are not necessarily about Jesus, His sacrifice, salvation, and saving souls for eternal life. Certainly it is necessary to guide the faithful through life’s difficulties, but it seems to be all political all the time promoting progressive political thought.
The church is an NGO, an arm of the New World Order. They have nothing to do with the salvation of souls.
When bishops involve themselves in politics concerning lawbreakers and illegal aliens, instead of providing doctrine to the faithful, they look like stooges of the Democratic Party rather than teachers of Catholicism.
Now, now anomynous, don’t let your sensible comments show your political incorrectness. What annoys me even more is these men of the cloths focus on earthly affairs and noticeably less on spiritual matters. But then again, since like other Protestants they think most everyone is going to heaven, why should they have any eternal fears, and consequently focus instead on worldly matters?
Hey Bishops and Holy Father, why don’t you be fair at least — let me and my family into the Vatican Museums [I “dream” of going there] without a ticket already!!!
The bishops should understand that DACA legalization cannot be given without ending chain migration, otherwise once nationalized these affirmative action privileged dreamers will turn around and legalize their own parents. The Democrats turned down Amnesty for 1,800,000 Dreamers. The bishops should prepare for the political debate about Anchor Babies, for which there is no controlling legal authority in our nation.