Almost like a broken record.
A ... federal judge
has struck down the Trump administration’s suspension of immigrant
visas for foreign nationals of 75 countries, handing immigration
activists another victory against President Trump’s effort to slam the
brakes on mass immigration.
And once again, a law passed more than 60 years ago — the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, better known as the Hart-Celler Act — is a specter still haunting America’s broken immigration system.
At
the heart of the case is the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
(CLINIC), a “religious” organization that has gotten into the legalized
human trafficking racket....
CLINIC is a subsidiary of the USCCB, and we all know that the Catholic Bishops have facilitated human (and drug, and sex-trafficking) through the border since before Trump 1.
This particular case, however, boils down to welfare-sucking.
...“Vargas ruled the policy was reviewable
under the APA because it was final agency action: it imposed mandatory
instructions requiring consular officers to refuse visas and had
immediate legal consequences, even though individual officers
implemented those refusals.”
Here is what
the legacy media is not highlighting about this huge case: It has to do
with the extraordinary numbers of immigrants who are on public welfare....
How much public welfare?
Currently, the United States has 59 percent of non-citizen households and 53 percent of immigrant households on public welfare. That’s according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2024 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)....
Bishops will tell us that the Church mandates charity to the stranger. But the Church's own Catechism has conditions:
CCC #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.”
Oh.
"...to the extent they are able...." Hmmmm.
Further note--this is important--that the immigrant "cannot find" a "means of livelihood" in their home country.
The US Bishops would do well to examine closely their "immigration assistance" operations (found all over the USA) to make certain that 1) the immigrants ARE obeying the laws of the US (also a part of the Catechism's teaching) and 2) that the (LEGAL) immigrants find jobs so that they are not public liabilities.
Reminding the Bishops that the Government's first responsibility is seeing to the welfare of its own citizens may help.
Cutting off donations to the "Annual Appeal" will also be helpful.