Pedro RiveraConservative Hispanic Society wrote: The Immorality of Illegal Immigration: A Priest Poses an Alternative Christian View Father Bascio presents a strikingly different perspective on illegal immigration from that of most Christian clergymen. He turns his spotlight on the harm of officially tolerated illegal immigration to Americas own struggling workers in the form of joblessness, shrinking wages and poorer working conditions. African-American workers, already plagued by job discrimination, bear the heaviest burden of the illegal invasion, which locks them out of many workplaces or drives wages below acceptable levels. The chronic non-enforcement of immigration laws is no accident: Congress has little stomach for ending something so profitable for their most powerful donors and the voters they can muster. The author fears that many committed Christians are blinded to these abuses by their church leaders preoccupation with charity toward illegal aliens, while ignoring the plight of millions of low-wage Americans. He deftly rebuts the self-serving myth of employers and politicians that illegals do jobs Americans wont do. Bascio also sees the profit motive behind legal immigration policies that lure the third worlds best and brightest to America, stripping poorer nations of their physicians, teachers and scientists. As a Catholic priest, the author admits the unpleasantness of taking a position not shared by his Churchs hierarchy, which is driven by the prospect of rising membership. Bascio sees unchecked illegal immigration as having grave consequences for overall U.S. tranquility: disdain for the rule of law, street gangs, document fraud and identity theft, staggering welfare and education costs and creeping Balkanization that threatens the national principle of E Pluribus Unum. Father Bascios book is a resounding appeal to Christians to re-examine their churches conventional view of illegal immigration and consider the hardship it brings for fellow Americans and its dangers for the nation as a whole. Here is a short video of Fr. Bascio explaining his position.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:02:22 +0000
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