Roger Mahony Quotes
Our current immigration laws are in a word --- unjust!
Roger Mahony, Roman Catholic Cardinal & Bishop of Los Angeles, Statement, May 20, 2007
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For every illegal immigrant working in the United States, there is at least one company or individual who is also breaking the law by employing him/her.
The words “illegal alien” are crude and needlessly harsh. There are people who are in American illegally, but the people are not illegal. There is no such term in United States law as “illegal alien”. See {640788}.
In many cases, one spouse is a citizen and the other is not; or the parents might be but not the children; of the children were born in the United States but the parents were not citizens and had no documentation. Under the broken immigration system then, the government would actually deport one family member. Sometimes it was the breadwinner and the legal wife and children would then be forced onto welfare, the taxpayers would have to pay for a family that was doing fine until the government intervened; worst, the children would be kept apart from their father who could not even visit them thereafter. It was the only circumstance in the American system where government would actually destroy families when “family friendliness” was the official policy.
Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony KGCHS is an American cardinal and retired prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1985 to 2011. Before his appointment as Los Angeles archbishop, he served as Auxiliary Bishop of Fresno from 1975 to 1980 and as Bishop of Stockton from 1980 to 1985. Mahony played an instrumental part in covering up the sexual abuse of many young people within the Church.
