(DC Pundit) – U.S. Catholic bishops are pulling out all the rhetorical stops — Nazis, slave catchers, and even sentimental tales of “replacement babies” — in their latest attempt to take a swing at President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. It’s the kind of over-the-top analogy that makes you wonder if they’ve been spending too much time in the faculty lounge of a liberal arts college.
These bishops aren’t just opposing Trump’s border enforcement; they’re promoting a wish list of open borders, cheap labor, and a healthy dose of moral preening. Apparently, the lesson here is that the laws of the United States should bend whenever a business group insists it can’t find “willing workers” at market wages.
Bishop Mark Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, took the moral condemnation route, comparing ICE agents and federal officers enforcing immigration law to historical villains. “ICE agents and other officials cannot escape personal responsibility for an unjust action with the excuse that it was ordered by their superiors,” Brennan wrote to his diocese earlier this month. In other words, following the law is now being likened to atrocities, because enforcing national borders is apparently the new definition of “unjust.”
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Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami had a different angle — the economic sob story. “You can ask the farmers; you can ask the hotel managers; you can ask those that run nursing homes and health care institutions around the country — and they’ll tell you that their best workers, in many cases, are immigrants,” he said in an August 5 interview. Translation: Americans should accept stagnant wages because cheap foreign labor makes life easier for corporate profit margins.
Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles joined the chorus, calling for more legal immigration and pushing amnesty for millions already here illegally. His reasoning? Their “labor contribution” is apparently reason enough to override immigration law. That’s an interesting interpretation of citizenship, earn it by undercutting American workers.
What’s conspicuously absent from the bishops’ statements is any acknowledgment of what Trump’s enforcement policies have actually done: saved untold numbers of migrants from dangerous trafficking routes, reduced the risk of assault and exploitation, and challenged the Wall Street “human import” strategy that drains labor from struggling nations. But giving Trump credit doesn’t fit the narrative, so silence it is.
Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., warned of “wholesale, indiscriminate deportation” targeting everyone without papers. Of course, enforcing the law against those who broke it is now “indiscriminate” — apparently the law should only apply to people the bishops don’t feel sorry for this week.
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso admitted that the Church’s influence is slipping, telling the New York Times, “We as a church unfortunately don’t have the kind of megaphone that the administration does… It’s a real challenge to reach even Catholics, especially when maybe one out of five who identify as Catholic make it to Mass on Sunday.”
That last line might be the most revealing. When only 20% of your own flock is showing up, maybe the problem isn’t that Trump is too loud. Maybe it’s that too many church leaders have traded shepherding their congregations for politicking on behalf of policies that hurt American workers and reward lawlessness.
In the end, the bishops’ position is clear: side with business lobbies, attack the President, and pretend that borders are optional, all while wondering why fewer Catholics are listening. Meanwhile, Trump continues doing exactly what he promised: protecting the sovereignty of the United States, defending working-class wages, and proving that enforcing the law is not a moral failing, but a national duty.
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It was catholic leaders and bishops that fed Jews to the nazi holocaust, from Spai, to France, to Italy, and the Baltic states as well. Hypocrites they are.