EVELYN writes:

You are not a Catholic. Nor are you a thinking Catholic. I will pray for you, that you will find the compassion that Jesus, our Lord and Savior teaches us to have for our fellow man. I will pray that idiotic statements such as Mexican people should stay and work on fixing their Country. Have you been to Mexico and seen the face of poverty on your sister and brother’s faces? If you cannot feed yourself, how are you to have energy to do anything but survive?

I would bet anything that you were raised in a home with plenty, and still live in a home with plenty.

Laura writes:

Go jump in a lake.

By your reasoning, the United States must allow every single poor person in the world to become a citizen of the United States. In other words, the United States has no right to exist.

If you have not opened your own house to the constant presence of poor and starving Mexicans then you are a hypocrite.

In 2011, 40 million people living in America were foreign-born and the foreign-born population grew by 31 percent between 2000 and 2012. Legal and illegal immigration add about one million people a year to the American population and have depressed the wages and reduced the job opportunities of many hundreds of thousands of Americans, many of them low-skilled workers. (See this report.) And you have the audacity to suggest that the majority of Americans who say in surveys that they want a pause in this enormous transformation are selfish.

Catholics are obligated to respect national sovereignty and love their own country. The American people do not support the automatic right of citizenship for every poor person in the world and “Catholics” with Marxist thinking have no right to shove it down their throats and reject the rule of law in the name of Marxist theology that is arrogant and proud.

Jesus considered sin, not poverty or physical deprivation, the worst of all evils. Uprooting many millions of people from rural communities and  their own cultures and settling them in modern cities in America has often produced moral chaos. As a Catholic you should care first about the spiritual status of Mexico. Is the Mexican government committed to aiding Mexicans in their salvation? No, it is not. But neither is America. Who are you to say that the many millions of Mexicans who want to come here cannot live a better life in their own country, cannot be helped by foreign charity and cannot bring about the Social Reign of Christ in Mexico?

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Adam writes:

Evelyn wrote: “If you cannot feed yourself, how are you to have energy to do anything but survive?”

Mexicans are not starving. In fact, in 2013 the rate of obesity in Mexico was found to surpass that in the United States (see CBS News and this report from the United Nations, page 77). Mexico has the highest rate of obesity in the world, and the U.S. comes in second place.

Laura writes:

Details, details.

James P. writes:

Evelyn asks whether or not you have been to Mexico and seen the face of poverty.

Evelyn is evidently unaware that Mexico has the tenth largest economy in the world and the majority of the population is solidly middle class. This means that poverty in Mexico is within the power of Mexico to solve. And, just as you said, Mexicans should stay there and solve it.

Perfesser Plum writes:

Evelyn writes,

“You are not a Catholic. Nor are you a thinking Catholic.”

Well, I guess if you are not a Catholic you wouldn’t be a thinking Catholic.

It would have been funnier if Evie had said, “And I bet you aren’t a housewife, either. Ha!”

I suspect Evelyn’s blew a fuse or something.

 Kevin M. writes:

Laura writes:

Mexico is also a country of rampant corruption and very low salaries for unskilled labor. And a significant portion of Mexico’s wealth comes from money sent home by Mexicans who work in this country. The Catholic writer Thomas Droleskey wrote in 2010:

These desperate people have fled desperate poverty that has been brought about in very large measure by the statist policies of the Federal government of the United Mexican States, whose officials are more than happy to see “economic burdens” leave their country and then to turn around and accuse the American people of being “racist” when they make demands to secure the American border with Mexico. It is also certainly true that the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was passed by simple majority vote of both Houses of the United States Congress rather than by two-thirds majority vote of the members of the United States Senate on November 17, 1993, has worsened the conditions of poor Mexicans, being perhaps the single most important proximate cause in the dramatic increase in illegal immigration that has occurred in the past sixteen years alone.

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