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Posted 03/25/09 at 02:09pm

Cardinal George, Faith Leaders Call for End to ‘Un-American’ Raids

Cardinal George"End the raids." That's the message from Cardinal George, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in USA Today.

Folks, it just doesn't get any simpler than that. 

You've probably heard the uproar - led by Lou Dobbs- over Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's recent statements at a church in her hometown. She called on Congress to end immigration raids that tear families apart, a process which she called "un-American."

Well, faith leaders from across the nation are lining up with the same line. They are calling for an end to federal policies that have terrorized immigrant families and trampled our most basic values of families.

Rev. Jim Wallis is saying it loud and clear on his website, www.GodsPolitics.com, in an opinion piece called "Stop the Raids."

Cardinal Francis George of Chicago and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, echoed the call this weekend as part of the Family Unity Tour:

"I stand with other faith leaders and all of you gathered here today and with every immigrant family in this nation to call on our government to end immigration raids and the separation of families."

He went on, "To separate families, wives from husbands, children from parents, is to diminish what God has joined."

So, it turns out that the extremists- led by Lou Dobbs - were right, and Speaker Pelosi was wrong. The raids aren't un-American.

They're unconscionable.

Comments

On the same tour for Families United, in Los Angeles, Congresswoman Diane Watson, a descendant of slaves in the United States made it clear that slave owners used the same strategy of separating family members, children from parents, and brothers from sisters, was necessary to break the hearts and souls of people and that was part of the system of holding women and men in slavery.

I think we will know what is American when we pass comprehensive (compassionate) immigration reform. I hope Pelosi is right and Dobbs is wrong.

@Glen Peterson

I attended the Familias Unidas even in Los Angeles and witnessed Congresswoman Diane Watson’s statements. It was inspiring to hear her equate the immigration in the context of a human rights and/or civil rights issue.

As an American, I firmly believe that those in Dobbs corner are a minority, but a very vocal minority.  I’d like to believe that most Americans would be repelled by the thought that we would want to engage in the wholesale break-up of families and continue with a system that allows for women and men to continue working for what is the equivalent of slave wages.

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