From here:
The Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops has called for a halt to the enforcement of US immigration laws, calling upon Episcopalians to join with other members of the religious left in “actively protesting” racial stereotyping and demand a halt to “practices that treat undocumented workers as criminals.”
In a pastoral letter and discussion paper released at the close of their Sept 16-21 meeting in Phoenix, the bishops said the starting point for a debate on illegal immigration begins with “an obligation to advocate for every undocumented worker as already being a citizen of God’s reign on earth and one for whom Christ died.”
It’s a little ironic that US Bishops are all for open borders in the secular realm, but when it comes to open borders for Anglicans it is quite another matter:
Schori told the press that she found the cross-border interventions “painful and destructive.” She said, “It destroys pastoral relationships….It does spiritual violence to vowed relationships.”
demand a halt to “practices that treat undocumented workers as criminals.”
Someone please corrrect me if I am in any way at all wrong.
I was of the understanding that entering into a country (be it Canada or the USA) without the permission of the appropriate federal authorities (ie. Canada Customs and Immigration or similar authority in the USA) was itself a criminal offence. That working in a country such as Canada without a Social Insurance Number (SIN) was also a criminal offence (similar legislation exists in the USA).
So are not these “undocumented workers” in violation of several “criminal offences”? And just because most (almost all) of these “undocumented workers” happen to come from Mexico somehow results in “racial stereotyping”! What a load of “bull”. Call a spade a spade and deal with the truth of the situation. People are breaking the law, and that makes them criminals. It is entirely appropreate that they be treated as such.