Migrants attempting to rush the US-Mexico border at San Ysidro, November 25, 2018.
Compassion For Whom?
When it comes to writing about migrant issues, most authors write sympathetically about the migrants, while showing almost complete disregard for the populations called upon to support them.
While I can have compassion for migrants, immigrants and refugees, what about my fellow Americans? Are they not much more my neighbors than someone from Guatemala? Do they not deserve my consideration and compassion?
What about Americans who lose their jobs or have their wages lowered because of increased competition from illegal immigrations? Am I not to be concerned about them?
What about Americans who are raped, killed, and murdered, by those who have no legal standing to be in the United States? Am I to turn a blind eye to the suffering of the victims and of their families?
It’s amazing how little concern the Roman Church-State and the political, intellectual, and business establishments have for the serious plight of large swaths of the American population, some of whose problems are the direct result of the failure of government officials to provide even a minimum level of enforcement of American immigration law, while at the same time presuming to lecture Americans about their lack of compassion for foreigners.
News flash for those concerned about foreign migrants. Americans are real people too, and they have real problems and legitimate concerns that deserve real attention.
Charity, as they say, starts at home.
