.- The
chancellor of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences, Msgr. Marcelo
Sanchez Sorondo, said this week that the Holy See is concerned about
legislation on immigration reform currently before the US Senate which
includes proposals to build a wall on the US/Mexican border and to make
it a crime to help illegal aliens.
Speaking to
reporters, Msgr. Sanchez said, “All peoples have been immigrants” and
immigration is “one of the characteristics of globalization.”
Likewise, he defended the right and freedom of movement of the 400
million immigrants around the world. He said that closing the
doors to them goes “against the natural order (and) against the
Christian order.”
He said he did
not intend his comments to be “a statement against a law,” but
emphasized that “man has the right to immigrate and communities and
nations have the right to receive those who immigrate and the right to
establish certain norms.”
Msgr. Sanchez
added warned against allowing immigration to “become clandestine”
because that would mean a further trampling of human rights.
Vatican official expresses concern about proposed US immigration reform
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