L.A. Archbishop Reads Letters of Children of Illegal Aliens
to Promote Amnesty
by Dr. Susan Berry 30 Jan 2014,
3:00 PM PDT
Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles read aloud the letters of children of illegal aliens that
were addressed to Pope Francis and
collected by a coalition of groups seeking rights for illegal immigrants. Gomez
said he hoped the letters would challenge the consciences of Americans.
As a Catholic News Agency report in the National Catholic Register
indicated on January 17th, Gomez discussed what the report said were “heartfelt
letters to Pope Francis seeking his help and his prayers for their parents who
have been deported or arrested.”
“They know that Pope Francis
himself is the son of an immigrant. They know that he has the heart to understand
what they are going through,” Gomez said. He added that reading the children’s
letters “makes my heart ache.”
“They are so beautiful and so
sad,” he told the civic group Town Hall Los Angeles.
A letter from Karla, a 15-year old
girl born in Los Angeles, told Pope Francis she has a
“very religious” family. Both her parents and her two older siblings are
immigrants from Mexico.
“My mom is slowly going blind, and
my dad has a heart problem. My sister is in a wheelchair, and she needs medical
help, but they can’t get the medical help they need because they don’t have
their legal documents,” she said.
“I know there are more people with
the same or even worse situation. Some kids even younger than me have been
separated from their parents and family,” Karla added. “I ask you to keep me
and my family in your prayers.”
Karla also asked the Pope to pray
for President Barack Obama, “so he can stop all deportation.”
Another young girl, Guadalupe,
asked for the Pope’s help “to stop deporting families and separating families,
because it’s sad to see kids be separated from their parents and the kids
ending up as orphans.”
“I hope you can help us with this
fight. You are our hope for all the families getting separated,” the girl told
Pope Francis. She said she knew how it feels to be separated from her father,
who died in October 2013.
Breitbart News spoke with Martha
Ugarte, a spokesperson for the coalition of immigration rights groups.
“We are a coalition of different
organizations over the years that have been trying to get immigration reform in
the spotlight,” she told Breitbart News. “We work with churches for marches and
immigration rights, but we’re not directly associated with the Church.”
Ugarte said the children wrote the
letters as part of an activity in which “the coalition asked them if they would
like to express their feelings in the letters.”
“The coalition is in contact with
the parents of these children,” Ugarte said. “These kids are American citizens.
They can speak up but their parents cannot. The kids sometimes don’t know if
their parents are going to be deported.”
“Many of the immigrants feel the
new pope has brought new hope,” she continued. “He is taking on all the hard
issues and we’d like him to take on immigration reform in the United States.”
Ugarte said her coalition has had
the children write letters to the pope in the past, as well as to President
Obama and Santa Claus.
The children’s letters were
collected by the coalition and brought to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the
Angels in Los Angeles.
Gomez said he would forward the
letters to Pope Francis.
“My friends, this is what immigration
is doing to the soul of our country,” Gomez said. “How we respond to these
children is a challenge to our conscience — and it will be a measure of our
humanity.”
José Gomez
Jose
H. Gomez is the archbishop for the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles for the Roman Catholic Church.
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was the archbishop for the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles for the Roman Catholic Church, and a trustee at the Catholic University of America.
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is a trustee at the Catholic University
of America, a archbishop Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a cardinal for the Roman Catholic Church.
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Brown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, Jerry
Brown’s sister, and was the California
state government treasurer.
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is Kathleen Brown’s brother, and the California state government
governor.
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Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
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Institution (think tank), married to John
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III, and married to H. John Heinz
III.
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was the deacon at Teresa Heinz Kerry’s
wedding to John Heinz III, is a
trustee the Catholic University of
America, the archbishop for the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, and a cardinal for the Roman Catholic Church.
Lee
H. Hamilton is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and
a co-chair for the Independent Task
Force on Immigration and America's Future.
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Advisory Council, and was the chief for the Los Angeles (CA) Police Department.
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to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Amnesty International,
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member for the International Crisis
Group, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
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(think tank).
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(think tank), and a papal knighthood
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XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) is the
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