The Jesuits’ flagship publication in the United States conducted a detailed comparison of Republican and Democratic policies on immigration and concluded that the Democratic solution was far superior to the Republican one.
“Overall, the Democratic immigration agenda is much stronger and recognizes the many nuances of our immigration system,” JD Long Garcia said Aug. 21. Essay for America magazine.
“Democrats have taken positions on immigration that resonate with much of Catholic social teaching,” the article argues. “Republicans have not.”
An impartial reader, America Anyone who has been in the United States in the past three and a half years knows about the dire border crisis caused by the Democratic Party’s inept response.
On February 2, 2021, President Joe Biden Signed Executive orders repealing former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies sparked a wave of immigration problems along the country’s southern border that continue to this day.
“I’m not making new laws. I’m getting rid of bad policies,” Biden said at the time.
Among the steps Biden took was to halt construction of President Trump’s border wall.
of America The paper ignores the historical record and focuses on the party platform, declaring that Democratic leaders released a party platform, “a 91-page document that far surpasses the Republican Party’s ‘America First’ manifesto.”
President Joe Biden is seeking to use mass immigration to inflate the nation’s labor market at a time when more than 44 million working-age Americans, excluding the unemployed, are completely out of the labor force.
Labor statistics released by Steven Camarota and… on August 21st. pic.twitter.com/wRbtkOegsA
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While Republicans intend to secure the border and stop illegal immigration, Democrats propose finding ways to “expand family reunification” and “increase the number of family-sponsored and employment-based visas available each fiscal year so that people are not forced to wait decades to obtain a visa.”
“The United States has long been a pioneer in refugee resettlement, providing a beacon of hope to persecuted people around the world, facilitating international efforts to address record displacement challenges, and demonstrating the generosity and fundamental values of the American people,” the Democratic platform states.
America The Weekly, a magazine that is a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, famously published an article in 2019 defending Marxism.
In “Catholic Communism” America Author Dean Dettloff Written “The militant atheism of Marxist politics is ‘understandable’ because Christianity has too often been an allied force with the ruling powers that exploit the poor.”
The article decried the “resurgent socialist hysteria” behind the opposition to Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib.
Dettloff pointed to Marxist priests “such as Fathers Herbert McCabe, Ernesto Cardenal, Fernando Cardenal, Frey Betto and Camilo Torres,” saying they “were inspired by communists and in many places were members and contributed to communist or communist-influenced movements.”
“For example, many of my friends in the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is a Marxist-Leninist party, are church-going Christians or people who don’t hold grudges against others for having been raised Christian,” Detloff said, “as are many of the radicals in the Democratic Socialists of America.”
