7/8/2015 - Michelle Malkin Townhall.com
The random, heartless murder of a young tourist
on San Francisco's Pier 14 by a five-time illegal alien deportee who benefited
from the "progressive" city's sanctuary policy has law-abiding
Americans, law enforcement officials and political opportunists of all stripes
up in arms.
But for decades, feckless government leaders
ignored the pleas of families who suffered the bloody consequences of open
borders.
For every Kate Steinle who died at the hands of
an illegal alien sanctuary beneficiary, there is a Tony, Michael and Matthew
Bologna in San Francisco.
A Jamiel Shaw (age 17) or Xinran Ji (age 24) in
Los Angeles.
A Martin Kudlis (age 3) in Denver.
An Iofemi Hightower, Dashon Harvey, Terrance
Aeriel, or Natasha Aeriel in Newark.
A Zina Linnik (age 12) in Tacoma.
A Vanessa Pham (age 19) in Fairfax County, Va.
As I've reported time and again, liberal
"sanctuary" programs in these metropolitan areas have protected,
harbored and enabled criminal illegal aliens who disappeared into the
deportation abyss. Both Democrats and Republicans, goaded by Big Government and
Big Business interests, collaborated to turn America into a collective
sanctuary nation. Non-enforcement is the rule, deportation evasion is the game,
and the country is a safe haven -- for law-breakers from around the world.
Yet, even as born-again tough-on-borders
grandstanders now race in front of cameras to condemn these dangerous policies,
churches across the country are brazenly thumbing their noses at our
immigration laws. And political phonies are doing nothing to stop them.
In Northeast Portland, Ore., the Augustana
Lutheran Church is shielding illegal alien Francisco Aguirre-Velasquez after he
committed drunk driving and drug crimes and violated deportation rules.
In Tucson, Ariz., illegal alien Daniel Neyoy
Ruiz took open, public refuge at Southside Presbyterian Church and then First
Christian Church to avoid deportation. Fellow illegal alien Rosa Robles Loreto
has been living at First Christian for nearly a year.
In Austin, Texas, First Unitarian Universalist
church is harboring illegal alien Sulma Franco after the feds denied her
deportation appeal.
In Denver, illegal alien Arturo Armando
Hernandez Garcia has taken up long-term residence at First Unitarian Society of
Denver church.
In Chicago, illegal alien Elvira Arellano
settled at the United Methodist Church of Adalberto for a year before finally
being ejected back to Mexico. Last year, the serial law-breaker somehow
returned to the Windy City to protest her status "in the shadows."
The Catholic Church has been at the forefront of
the 1960s-era sanctuary movement, with top officials openly promoting
immigration anarchy and lawlessness among their flock in the name of
"humanity" and "compassion."
As I've long noted, it's one thing to show
compassion to legal immigrants, legitimate refugees and asylees, and those
abused and mistreated by smugglers. It's quite another to conspire against an
orderly immigration and entrance system that imposes common-sense limits,
eligibility requirements, criminal background checks, medical screening and a
commitment to assimilation. Catholic groups have contributed hundreds of
thousands of dollars to building shelters for illegal aliens from Central
America and way stations in southern Mexico.
The unholy alliance between church leaders and
the open-borders lobby extends from the Vatican to Rev. Jim Wallis' Faith in
Public Life (FPL) network, the Los Angeles-based Clergy and Laity United for
Economic Justice (CLUE) and the George Soros-tied Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ).
It's a web of nearly 100 interfaith committees, campus agitators and
"workers centers" steeped in the organizing tactics of Saul Alinsky
on behalf of millions of illegal aliens filling the pews and coffers of their
abettors.
Capitol Hill's abdication of its duties to
protect and defend our borders is bad enough. But if people of faith choose to
sit silently as a "new sanctuary movement" of tax-exempt houses of
worship defiantly and recklessly undermines our immigration laws, our national
sovereignty doesn't have a prayer.
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