Catholic Bishops Respond Gov. Perry's Plan To Send 1,000 Guard Troops To The Border

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At the Diocese of Dallas, Bishop Kevin J. Farrell says immigrant children from Central America are refugees fleeing violence and drug wars in their home countries. (Doualy Xaykaothao KERA News)

7:35 pm
Mon July 21, 2014
By Doualy Xaykaothao

In Austin, Governor Rick Perry his plan to send a thousand members of the Texas National Guard to the border.

“I will not stand idly by while our citizens are under assault, and little children from Central America are detained in squalor.”

Perry said the troops would help take the pressure off the Border Patrol.

“These additional resources will help combat the brutal Mexican drug cartels that are preying upon our communities and also will help to tear others, before they have a chance to harm our citizens and become criminal aliens within our borders.”

http://keranews.org/post/catholic-bishops-respond-gov-perrys-plan-send-1000-guard-troops-border

2:24 audio at link.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

1. The bishops are acting like Christians here.

Governor Perry is not.

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2. Dallas is preparing to receive 3000 unaccompanied immigrant children.

Walking the walk.

Goodhair's idiocy knows no bounds.

[CBHagman]

3. And in Massachusetts, Sean O'Malley appeared with the governor...

...who wants to shelter some of the children on Cape Cod and western MA.

[url]http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/18/patrick-speak-friday-migrant-housing/KNbWL2DTtAO2nTvxGP9ixL/story.html[/url]

Eyes filling with tears as he quoted Scripture on Friday, Governor Deval Patrick strongly defended his plan to provide temporary shelter for up to 1,000 children who have crossed the US-Mexico border illegally and said he had identified two possible locations for them, one in Western Massachusetts and another on Cape Cod.

The facilities are Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee and Camp Edwards in Barnstable County, which housed evacuees from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The bases are being submitted for federal approval, and only one will be selected, said Patrick.

Speaking at a news conference, the governor sought to move the issue beyond the caustic national debate over immigration and used the Bible to frame the problem as a moral one. He seized on the influx of migrant children in a way that other governors have not, showcasing the sort of oratory that helped propel him to office in 2006.

“I believe that we will one day have to answer for our actions — and our inactions,” Patrick said, choking up as he was flanked by religious leaders, including Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston.