TOP CATHOLIC BISHOPS AIDE ON EXECUTIVE AMNESTY: OBAMA’S ‘LAST CHANCE TO MAKE GOOD ON PROMISE’
In a statement last Friday in the New York Times, the top aide on immigration for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said that executive amnesty is President Barack Obama’s “last chance to make good on his promise to fix the system.” Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy at the Department of Migration and Refugee Services for the USCCB warned, “If he delays again, the immigration activists would – just politically speaking – jump the White House fence.” In an op-ed last year for Religion News Service, Appleby blurred the lines between legal and illegal immigration when he wrote: With each successive wave, the bishops defended the rights of newly arrived immigrants, arguing against nativist organizations that…Continue Reading