Graphic: Portrait of Pope Francis designed by Bogdan Solomenco, pencil drawing, black and white, hand made; CC BY-SA 4.0
In the age of mass migration, Christians must face what it means to love their neighbors.
Pope Francis stated in September, “To send migrants away, to leave them wherever you want, to leave them … it’s something terrible, there is evil there. To send away a child from the womb of the mother is an assassination because there is life. We must speak about these things clearly.” Pope Francis made this statement, trying to weigh the relative evils of border security and abortion. What Pope Francis misses, though, is that closing the border is not evil at all.
However, Pope Francis is missing the broader context of the immigration issue in the United States. When there is a pro-open-borders President, the migrants flock to the United States. When there is an anti-open-borders President, such as Donald Trump, the migrants stay home. Todd Bensman, a researcher at the Center for Immigration Studies, explained in his book Overrun how migrants did not bother making the trip to the United States when Trump was President.
This is good for us, and this is good for the migrants. Getting to the United States illegally is extremely dangerous. If one is to take the Mexico route, they often put their lot in with the cartels, paying them for safe transport. This enriches the cartels, which allows them to expand their drug and human trafficking operations.
In addition, who will be the best at smuggling people whilst evading law enforcement? Human traffickers are best qualified for such a task. This creates a dangerous situation for illegal immigrants as they attempt to get to the United States. It is bad for them, and it is bad for Americans. Stopping mass migration is a humanitarian goal.
This post originally appeared at https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/national-sovereignty/what-pope-francis-misses-on-immigration/
