Lux Lucet

Ruth and Naomi Leave Moab, 1860, by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794-1872).

In a stark warning to those who would cross the US-Mexico border illegally, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions was quoted last week saying, “When you are caught, you will be detained, adjudicated and deported…Do not come unlawfully…Wait your turn.”

The Trump administration’s more aggressive stance toward illegal immigration has had its effect nationally with a jump in arrests and deportations of those who are in the US illegally.

This more aggressive stance toward enforcing immigration laws has also had its effect locally here in the Cincinnati area, resulting in a deportation case that dominated the local news and even gained national and international coverage.

The case in question involved the deportation of Maribel Trujillo-Diaz, a citizen of Mexico who entered the US illegally in 2002, was arrested in 2007, and spent the next ten years fighting deportation. In the end, she lost her case and was deported to Mexico this past Wednesday.

In following the local news coverage of this case over the past few weeks, it became apparent that Trujillo-Diaz’ case involved many of the same issues that color the immigration debate nationally. As such, it is worth examining the circumstances surrounding her case in some detail. It is this author’s belief that doing so will serve to shed light on the broader immigration debate.

It Usually Begins With Rome

Having studied the immigration issue in some detail, it is my conviction that the Roman Church-State, more than any other institution, is responsible for the ongoing immigration crisis in the US.

The Apostle John depicted Rome as Mystery Babylon, the Mother of Harlots, the Woman Who Rides the Beast, who relentlessly seeks and temporarily obtains dominion over the whole earth.

Many in the independent media have spent a great deal of time researching the New World Order, the Bilderbergers, the Rothchilds and the Rockefellers, George Soros, the Council on Foreign Relations and other such entities in an attempt to ferret out globalist conspiracies. And there may very well be something to what they say.

Unfortunately, most of the same individuals who can recite the history of George Soros’ skullduggery in excruciating detail have little or nothing to say about the oldest and greatest globalist conspiracy of all, that of the Roman Church-State and its centuries long goal of bringing about one world government.

In Revelation, the Apostle John describes the Roman Church-State as Mystery Babylon the Great, The Mother of Harlots, and the Woman who Rides the Beast of secular government.

Rome is an institution has recovering from a mortal would inflicted upon it at the time of the sixteenth century Reformation and is back, more dangerous than ever, openly and aggressively pushing its globalist agenda. But almost no one pays any attention.

What is more, Revelation also tells us Rome will be temporarily successful in achieving its globalist aims.

Coming back to the issue of immigration, it is this author’s conviction that the Roman Church-State’s advocacy for mass taxpayer funded immigration / migration / refugees and asylum seekers is a weapon in its arsenal for advancing its globalist ambitions.

As a globalist organization, Rome view independent, self-governing nations states as standing in the way of its one world government ambitions. It needs to find some way to weaken these states and eventually fold them into its system. And mass immigration / migration is one of the most powerful tools in its arsenal for bringing this about.

“The Church recognizes that all the goods of the earth belong to all people,” wrote the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in Strangers No Longer Together On The Journey Of Hope (Strangers), an official Church document issued jointly with the Conference of Mexican Bishops in 2003.

The Church refers to its false doctrine of original communism – “all the goods of the earth belong to all people” is as radically communist as anything one would read in Marx – as the Universal Destination of Goods (UDG). The UDG is the great fiction upon which Rome erects the supposed right to immigrate.

As Rome goes on to argue,

While recognizing the right of the sovereign state to control its borders, Exsul Familia also establishes that this right is not absolute, stating that the needs of immigrants must be measured against the needs of the receiving countries…

Pope John XXIII placed limits on immigration, however, when there are “just reasons for it.” Nevertheless, he stressed the obligation of sovereign states to promote the universal good where possible, including an obligation to accommodate migration flows. For more powerful nations, a stronger obligation exists (Strangers 30, 31).

As one reads Roman Catholic documents, it soon becomes apparent to the reader that the Church is quite comfortable taking away with the left hand what it had granted just moments before with the right hand.

This pattern can be seen in the short passage above where, on one hand, the Bishops grant that nations have a right control their borders, but, on the other hand, that right is not absolute. This right “must be balanced against the needs of immigrants.”

The intelligent reader will ask himself at this point, “Just who is it that decides what is the proper balance between the needs of immigrants and the needs of the nation.” The obvious answer implied by the context is that this decision is the province of the Roman Church-State.

In other words, it is Rome, not some mere national governments, that is the source of all authority on matters of immigration. To put it another way, Rome subverts the authority of national governments, while at the same time cleverly appearing to uphold it.

Further, Rome argues that accepting migrants, immigrants and refugees is not optional. Nations have “an obligation to accommodate migration flows.”

Left unsaid by Rome is just who is expected to pay for this “obligation.” Because only individuals incur costs, the obvious implication is that the cost of this “obligation” will fall upon the taxpayers of whichever nation Rome deems necessary. The unfortunates targeted by Rome in this evil document are US citizens.

The Cincinnati Archdiocese Attempts to Subvert Justice

A review of statements made by local representatives of the Roman Church-State reveal, unsurprisingly, that Church leaders were squarely behind a fairly aggressive push to subvert justice in the case of Trujillo-Diaz by preventing her deportation.

Following Trujillo Diaz’ Wednesday deportation, the Catholic Telegraph, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, issued a statement, which reads in part,

We affirm the rule of law, and all of us seek to live in a land of justice. However, none of us wants to live in a society that also does not practice mercy at the appropriate time and for someone who poses no threat to public safety. When the practice of justice harms a family and contradicts the will and well-being of a community, then justice can rightly be tempered with mercy.

As mentioned above, Rome has perfected the art of talking out of both sides of its mouth. In this case, on the one hand affirming the rule of law, while at the same time seeking to subvert it.

One of the most common tactics used by Rome when arguing against deportation is that it harms separates families. Were we to follow this line of thought to its logical conclusion, it would preclude any punishment for anyone who’s a parent.

Sending someone to jail separates him from his wife, children and grandchildren.

Fining a man means that he will have less with which to support his family.

Suspending a mother’s driver’s license means she won’t be able to drive her child to school, the doctor or soccer practice.

One could go on, but by now it should be obvious that any punishment of a parent will to some degree affect his children.

Yet while Scripture nowhere says that parents are to go unpunished simply because they are parents, it does prevent the civil magistrate from punishing the children for the crimes of their parents or parents for crimes committed by their children.

For example, King Amaziah of Judah put to death the conspirators who had assassinated his father King Joash but spared their children. Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his (Amaziah’s) hand, that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king. But the children of the murderers he did not execute, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, ‘Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall be put to death for his own sin’ ” (2 Kings 14:5, 6).

This passage in no way supports Rome’s argument that Maribel Trujillo-Diaz’ flouting of US immigration law should be ignored simply because she is a mother. And neither does any other passage in Scripture.

Mrs. Trujillo-Diaz was deported for her own crime. Her children, all born in the US and possessing American citizenship, and her husband were not deported. In this, the state acted justly according to the Word of God.

As to the Catholic Telegraph’s statement that Trujillo-Diaz’ deportation “contradicts the will and well-being of [the] community,” just how does the newspaper know this? Have they taken a survey of “the community” however that is defined?

This author knows of at least one member of the community who lives just a few miles of where Trujillo-Diaz was arrested and believes that in no way was his will or well-being violated by the deportation.

As one might imagine, the Archdiocese was active in the Trujillo-Diaz case prior to her being deported, at one point calling her possible deportation “cruel and unacceptable.”

Two weeks prior to her deportation, Mike Pucke, the Catholic priest of St. Julie Billiart Church in Hamilton where Trujillo-Diaz attended, argued that Trujillo-Diaz should not be deported because she was not a dangerous criminal and that she fled Mexico due to possible violence from drug cartels.

On April 6, the Catholic Telegraph
reported that Trujillo-Diaz had applied for asylum “based on the situation that her family has been targeted by Mexican cartels because they have refused to work for them.”

Because her asylum case was pending as of early April 2017, it appears that this was a last ditch attempt by her to remain in the US. This raises the question, if in fact gang violence was the primary driver causing her to flee Mexico and come to the US illegally, why did she not attempt to apply for asylum years ago.

Unless there is evidence that has not been presented to the public or that I am unaware of, it appears that she never attempted to apply for asylum during the five years between the time she illegally came to the US in 2002 and her arrest in 2007 at a Fairfield Ohio chicken processing plant. This apparent delay in her asylum application casts doubt on her claim that she fled Mexico due to fear of drug gang violence.

In order to bring public attention to the case, on April 9 the Cincinnati Archdiocese held a “Mercy for Maribel” prayer service which was followed by a march from St. Joseph Church in Hamilton to the Butler County jail. During the procession marchers prayed the rosary.

But the rosary is not Christian prayer. It is an idolatrous practice, which, in direct contradiction to the commandment of Christ himself, requires “vain repetitions” of useless words. Such “prayer” is not pleasing in the sight of God, who seeks worshippers to worship him in spirit and in truth.

(to be continued…)