Who cares what the Catholic Church says. I am tired of religious leaders interfering in political decisions. If they want to become politically active, they should lose their tax exempt status. Also, the Catholic Church has amassed a huge sum of wealth worth billions. Let them pay for the illegal aliens draining our nation. The Church should also stop encouraging these poor families to have children they can't feed or care for. Catholicism is out of touch with today's society. I know many recovering Catholics.

Nothing is a 100 percent perfect and that goes for the government application E-Verify? The answer for any irate hired worker is simple, that if the employer is not satisfied with the results of the immigration verification identity process? You take a copy of your 1-9 form to the Social security agency, to resolve the issue? YOU WILL OBVIOUSLY NOT APPEAR BEFORE AN AGENT OF THE GOVERNMENT, IF YOU HAVE NO AUTHENTIC PAPERS? This is not a complex approach to the problem, although the US Chamber of Commerce, ACLU and a multitude of detrimental businesses have tried to escalate this situation? They say categorically nothing about how to rectify the matter, owing to their main objective is to demonize the process any way they can? Even their adolescent attitude of filing some frivolous lawsuit with the courts fell through?

E-Verification--MUST--become a permanent law, not just subject to an employer’s whim? The public who savor their jobs not being appropriated by foreign workers--AS HAPPENED IN EUROPE--should demand E-Verify in every industry, every business with heavy penalties for those who rebuke the law including mandatory jail sentences. EUROPE over several decades has also been overwhelmed by legal and illegal immigrants, thats why health care across the Atlantic has become compromised? E-Verify could be easily expanded for many other uses in the US, including admittance to health care, drivers licenses, government subsidies that would include education and home mortgages?

But we must remain vigilant as the status quo has in their influence a group of stalwart politicians. They have secretly conspired to table E-Verify in the past and will no doubt try to eradicate it's accessibility in the future. Hundreds of pariah businesses are devoid of a conscious towards the American working man or woman. They have corrupted the lawmakers in Washington, with special interest money and extravagant favors. They have already indoctrinated some of our previously honest leaders with favors and in return we have seen the weakening of 287 G police training apprehension of illegal immigrants. Already President Obama has listened to Sen.Harry Reid D-NV, California's own Nancy Pelosi and Napolitano who have weakened other enforcement laws.

Money was wasted on building the single length border fence instead of Rep.Duncan Hunters planned two-tier barrier as in San Diego? ICE raids have been reduced and even the No-match-rescinded. More money is wasted overturning enforcement laws, instead of using the full force of these procedures in combating the illegal immigrant invasion. IF YOU HAVE SOME SOLID KNOWLEDGE OF ILLEGAL WORKERS, CONTACT ICE! ADDRESS YOUR POLITICIANS AT 202-224-3121 NO MORE COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM! IT IS NOT IN THE COUNTRIES INTEREST. USE AMENDMENTS TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS WITH THE 1986 IMMIGRATION LAWS ALREADY ENACTED. Learn facts not rhetoric or lies at NUMBERSUSA & JUDICIAL WATCH

Stephen are you advocating removing tax exempt status for all non profits which are politically active or just the Catholic Church? Do you disagree with the idea of treating all people with respect as well?

ravensfan says: "are you advocating removing tax exempt status for all non profits which are politically active or just the Catholic Church? Do you disagree with the idea of treating all people with respect as well?"

Any nation has the duty to enforce all of its laws with respect. Lawbreaking illegal aliens, on the other hand, have shown disrespect to our culture, Constitution and laws by knowingly overstaying visas and stealing across our borders as well as using a plethora of stolen and/or forged documents to obtain employment and other benefits. They should all be respectfully deported.

I'm not sure why you felt the need to quote me. I never said they shouldn't be deported. Then again not sure why you didn't have enough courage to at least use an id either.

The Catholic church only cares about its donations from the large Latino illegal alien population.

We need E-verify to enacted to ALL business to keep out illegal Aliens or illegal foreign nationals from this nation regardless of their RACE or what the Church thinks.

The Church needs to show respect the Citizens of the United States and show respect to this Country......and not to Criminals flooding our nation.

Tut, tut Ravensfan,
Courage you say is needed to take the position of Sept 22, 4.05 PM anonymous. What would you have done if he had used his ID--reported him to his mama or to his church? While the Catholic church should not be singled out for removal of its non profit status for poking its religious proboscis constantly in the political sewer (not for spiritual but for carnal empowerment) the Catholic Church's stance in favor of illegal aliens is malodorous. Its disdain for the law of the land has nothing to do with love of all humans but selective love for the hordes from Catholic lands south of the border--the Catholic church as usual smacks its lips and plays the numbers game across the globe so the well fed bachelors in the country of Vatican can have subjects for their fiats and you Ravensfan may not be a blind supporter of this subterfuge but you certainly enjoy giving a hard time to those who outright oppose it.
The Anon you love to deride for lack of intellect.

Where is this Cardinal coming from? Illegal aliens are destroying this Country and we should have compassion for them? Did this Cardinal fall out of tree?

Illegal aliens have made America the dumping ground for all their illegal alien children, then we have to school them and give them free medical care.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSe3C5vMafM&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ZnX9JRo5M&NR=1

I for one, am sick and tired of these ILLEGAL ALIENS snubbing their nose at our immigration laws and the many other laws of this Country. If our Federal Government can not ENFORCE our immigration laws, and get these ILLEGAL ALIENS out of this Country, then let the States do it! One way or another, an end has to come to this illegal immigration, and not with AMNESTY! Amnesty will only encourage more ILLEGAL ALIENS to invade our Country and reward those who broke our laws and raped the American taxpayer in many ways...depressing our wages, taking our jobs, overwhelming our schools with their ILLEGAL ALIEN children, driving without a license or car insurance, all the crime from stolen identities to rape, drugs and everything else.

It's time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It's time for them get out of this Country and back in their own Country where they belong. When we get rid of the ILLEGAL ALIENS, we will get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT!

How about this, there Cardinal George. How about saying a little prayer for the safe return of these illegal aliens to their home Country? That would be nice.

So the Catholics are supporting crimes now....

So the Catholics are supporting crimes now....
The more congration they have the more powerful the church become, remember the dark ages...

After fifty-two years I am still a Roman Catholic, but refuse to attend a Catholic Church, and am one of many who will no longer pay church dues which are used to support pedophiles and illegal aliens.

I happen to live where the largest number of ILLEGAL”S – now documented by having our Children’s State Health Insurance plastic card (S-CHIPS) and Pennsylvania is broke with still no budget passed. Last week we received an actual published threat by latinos best!

“Angel Jirau, a champion of local Latinos who works with local schools, governments and community groups, said the Spanish-speaking population is the fastest-growing group in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
In the next two decades it will be the “strongest voting block,” he said. Those who harbor fearful and bigoted views may have to “deal with the consequences” in the near future, Jirau said”.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Misconceptions_about_Latinos_confronted_09-14-2009.html

My comment there:
I have been receiving the “consequences” as my school taxes doubled and your gangs infiltrate our schools. Not to mention the ungodly sounds coming from the CLAN renting the home next door to my once valuable home. Where are the “RIGHT”S” of American tax paying homeowners living next door to illegal alien’s? Yes Jirau I do appreciate your threats of consequences! Thank you very much for that!

ravensfan: All people can be treated with respect, but that doesn't mean allowing them to break our laws and invade our country and grant them amnesty. As for the tax exempt status of churches, that should apply to any church that becomes politically active. What do you think separation between church and state was referring to?

"Ravensfan may not be a blind supporter of this subterfuge but you certainly enjoy giving a hard time to those who outright oppose it."

I only give trouble as you call it to those who offer only blind attacks and lashing out like The trouble with many like you is that you oppose the Church and probably Christianity period. If you were simply campaigning for true reform you'd get no opposition from me. You ignore the good done and focus solely on the wrongs. You offer no ideas as to how to improve anything.

An id simply allows one the opportunity to recognize another blogger. I don’t report anyone. Since Matthew Hay Brown has the ability to not post or remove posts I leave it to him to police the thread. While I pretty much disagree with Robert I respect the fact that he leaves the same id so everyone knows it’s him. Allowing the line to show Anonymous shows a lack of willingness to be associated with a post.

Stephen I agree with your statement on respect and breaking the laws.

Separation of Church and State is not the actual line from the constitution. It is generally traced to the letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists, in which he referred to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state. The phrase was quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1947. This led to increased popular and political discussion of the concept.

Nowhere does that say or intend to say that churches can not take a position on political issues. That being said I’m not a great fan of the idea when applied to candidates for office.

Once again the forest isn't being seen because of a focus on all those trees in the way.

On an individual level we all have the highest level of sympathy for them and their motivations and their efforts.

But the issue with illegal immigrants is NOT at the individual level. Is it?

The overwhelming numbers of them are what requires a different approach than what we as individuals or we can do as a nation for a few, or a few hundred, or a few thousand, or even a few tens of thousands.

Our tolerance is inelastic and has passed the point of accommodation.

If we "have to respect" illegal aliens, then shouldn't we "have to respect" ALL law breakers? Or does that only apply to Catholic criminals?

I agree with the Cardinal we should treat illegal aliens with respect - and respectfully ask them to leave.

Every human being deserves respect. Even when they don't ask for it. I don't agree with your comments, but I still respect you.

What about the church's respect of America's law? What about the illegal's not respecting America's law?
Why is it the church do not use the influence of the faith to discourge unlawfulness?
Why is the church such a hypercrat?