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Second, what the Catechism describes as the ability of political authorities to “make exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions” does not mean that all regulations and limitations on immigration are just. In the same sentence, such regulation is qualified as “for the sake of the common good,” and earlier in same section, the Catechism teaches that “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” and to protect a guest as a matter of natural right (No. 2241).

Then flood the Vatican with immigrants. America has more debt than any other country in existence, we are not more “prosperous”.

In the U.S. bishops’ conference helpful overview of Catholic social teaching on migration, they explain that the right of people to migrate, including for economic reasons, and the right of countries to control their borders must be harmonized in mercy and justice. Therefore, they say, “A nation may not simply decide that it wants to provide for its own people and no others.” This means that it cannot be enough for someone who wants to seriously engage Catholic teaching to say they support legal immigration without also evaluating the justice of the highly restrictive legal conditions the U.S. currently imposes on immigration, especially of low-skilled workers coming across the southern border. (A 2017 article in America sketched an outline of what a more just legal scheme for immigration might look like from a Catholic perspective.)

Funny how they left out the responsibility of the “migrant” listed here:

Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants' duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens.

These heretics refuse to acknowledge that the migrants are not upholding their responsibilities because they know it invalidates our “responsibility” to them.

The narrative of criminality has been a core part of Mr. Trump’s political rhetoric since he began his presidential campaign in 2015, describing immigrants from Mexico as bringing drugs and crimes and being rapists. The church’s concern about this is not new. In 2016, bishops were expressing concern about Mr. Trump’s villainization of immigrants, and the editors of America were warning about the dangers of nativist prejudice and hatred.

Time to conquistador central/South America again then. If their big argument is migrants can do whatever the fuck they want despite Vatican doctrine saying otherwise then it’s time to take central and South America away from the Hispanics.