NOTE: before I begin, in the essay below I describe an instance of what I do to help those in need. I was challenged by this elsewhere at a different forum. I use this example simply because it is personal. There are many others who have done far more than I am capable of doing. May God bless them. However, if I complain about illegal immigration and do not point out what I did do to help with the problem, then I shall be called a hater. And if I complain and I do point out what I did, then I shall be called bitter. It is much like what Matthew 11:16-17 records:
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates, ‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’
There is no winning with those who persist in obstinate defiance.
TEACHING OF THE CHURCH
First, often I have heard the sanctimonious and pious declare:
"Pray for all the persecuted people of the world."
If one does not directly care for the persecuted, then the prayer is worthless. I did not say that. St. James did in verses 5-17 of chapter two in his epistle:
If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
Do NOT abdicate unto Caesar what Scripture commands you personally to do. "Render unto God the things that are god's and unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's." It is NOT Caesar's job to welcome the alien. That is our personal and individual moral responsibility.
Second, section 2241 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church states the following:
2241 The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin. Public authorities should see to it that the natural right is respected that places a guest under the protection of those who receive him.
Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants' duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.
Note the last sentence which states that immigrants are required to obey the laws of the host country. This is consistent with what St. Paul writes in Romans 13:1-7:
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
Therefore, illegal immigration is prohibited.
HISPANIC ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
In all the discussion about illegal immigration of Hispanics, what is not being examined is the root cause for which Hispanics flee Mexico and South America to come to the US. That cause originates in what happened to Mexico (and elsewhere) in the early 20th century. The Mexican people voted for President of their country an atheist by the name of Plutacro Elias Calles. Once in power, he began a compaign of persecution against Christianity in general and the Catholic Church specifically. The barbarity of his actions was exceeded only by Josef Stalin in the USSR, Adolf Hitler in National Socialist Germany, and Hirohito in Imperial Japan. In the Cristeros War of the 20s and 30s bishops and priests were executed, and Christian men, women and children were tortured to death. The United States stood mute and impotent to do anything about it. Catholic Christianity was almost wiped out from the popular culture of Mexico except for superstition that did not threaten the secular government. With the emasculation of Catholicism from the public life, it is no wonder that the satanic influence of drug peddling and drug addiction arose. Thus today we have a Mexico suffering the aftermath of its de-Christianization.
Similar things happened in Argentina with the rise of Juan Peron and later Eva. It is no wonder therefore that the man from Argentina sitting on the Papal throne is a heretical Marxist Peronist who happily received a communist crucifix from a Latin American tin pot dictator, and encourages adulterers and fornicators to receive Holy Communion.
Therefore, I say that NONE of the problems afflicting the Hispanic people will be or can be fixed until they return to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. They flee what they have caused. They are reaping what they have sown in having elected such leaders as Calles and Peron. No matter how much money the US throws at illegal immigrants, no matter how welcoming we are to people fleeing from the very system of government for which they so willingly voted, they cannot and will not be helped. They must repent first because repentance comes BEFORE and NOT AFTER health and prosperity.
Further, I say that this same lesson applies to us in these United States. We sanctify the filth of homosexual sodomy and we legitimatize the infanticide of the unborn. We therefore fully merit the fate that has befallen Mexico and Argentina. The ONLY way to avoid that is repentance and conversion, not some new fangled worthless useless social justice program that cannot eradicate the sin in men's hearts which causes these problems in the first place.
Get with it, folks. Social justice does not, cannot and will not work. Bowing in abject humility before the Holy Crucifix however always does work.
MUSLIM IMMIGRATION
Islam - a religious political system and NOT a race of people (just in case any liberals reading this are confused) - is a dangerous and false belief system created by a pedophile false prophet who raped and pillaged his way across the sands of Arabia in the 7th century AD, and ever since that time, Islam has spread by the sword, either subjecting conquered peoples to the enslavement of dhimmitude or executing those deemed unfit to live like Jews and Christians. All of the Middle East and North Africa was Christian prior to Mohammed, and he and his demented followers changed that. They invaded all the way to Tours, France in the mid-8th century, and by the 11th century, after 400 years of Islamic persecution of the Christians in the Byzantine Empire, the West launch the Crusades as a defensive action. The effectiveness of that lasted only so long and by the 16th and 17th centuries Islam was again invading Europe all the way to the gates of Vienna, Austria, to be turned back by the Catholic Poles. Here is a video summarizing what happened:
Islam is not a religion like Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism and others. It is a political system of enslavement and forced conversions. In Islam there is no secular government and separate religious authority. Just look at Saudi Arabia and Wahhabi Sunni Islam, or the mad mullahs of Shiite Islam in Iran. Women are treated as second class people, children are taught to be suicide bombers, and testosterone crazed, demonically possessed men decapitate or immolate Christians and Jews at will.
Now many will say that the majority of Muslims do not behave that way, and that there are just and sane Muslim nations. Jordan is a prime example. King Abdullah II and his wife Queen Rania are indeed righteous and just people. But they are the exception to the rule. Furthermore, let us posit that a majority of Muslims are not terrorist fanatics. Let's assume that a mere 5% of the Muslim population are that way. Out of 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, that leaves 80 million Jihadists. If there were 160 M&M candies in a jar and only 5% were poisonous, would you reach your hand into the jar to grab some to eat, knowing that 8 M&M's might kill you?
This is why all further Muslim immigration must stop. Yes, let's rescue the refugees - Christians and Jews. But let's leave the Muslims with the religion and the system of governance that they believe in - Sharia Law. Every time they are allowed to come into Western countries, they create enclaves in which even police dread to go; they rape the local women (as is happening in Sweden); they bomb shopping centers (as happened in France); they shoot innocent civilians (as happened in the United States).
Now ask yourself this: why are these Muslims fleeing their native countries and coming here to set up their Sharia Law? Why? Their rejection of the One True God - the Triune God - for the demon god Allah is why they have all the problems which they have. Until they repent, let them live in peace where they are and keep them out of Western countries.
Of course the flip side of that is this: we need to extricate ourselves from their countries. We need to stop buying their oil and natural gas, and start converting our economy over to nuclear energy instead of relying on mineral slime and mineral gas in lands of Islamic fascism. But that's a topic for a different day.
One last thing on this topic of Muslim immigration: in the Old Testament God told the Children of Israel to keep themselves unpolluted and undefiled by contact with their pagan Canaanite neighbors. We should follow that same advice, for Winston Churchill said it best:
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Liberal progressive feminists in the Church often invoke Matthew 25:31-46 when saying that as a nation we have to care for the sick, feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the imprisoned, and welcome the alien. They say that, but what they really mean is this:
"Government should do it."
They do not want to get their hands personally dirty by doing corporal works of mercy for the unfortunate. They do not want to be bothered by such problems. But they damn sure do want to feel sanctimoniously self-justified and piously self-righteous by jumping on the "Trump is mean" and "Republicans are haters" bandwagon for no other reason than we insist on following the due process of the law for everyone equally, immigrant and citizen.
And yes, I do not want my tax money going to help welfare recipients and illegal immigrants and what not. I have helped both on my own without Caesar's damnable assistance and I have done a better job than Caesar ever could. For six months I cared for two immigrants in my apartment free of charge until they were able to stand on their own two feet. So until all the liberals out there put their money where their mouth is and actually DO good works for the poor, they have no justification to whine.
Don't go quoting Matthew 25:31-46 unless YOU do it personally.
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