Arizona Bishops say Immigration Policies Should be Compassionate

Let's hope there is a way we can solve the immigration question and also help these families. This country is supposed to be moral and compassionate, if only we can remember that when dealing with immigrants. DP

KVOA News: Arizona's Catholic bishops said politicians ought to make America's immigration policies more compassionate toward the thousands of illegal immigrants who sneak into the United States each year to provide a better living for their families.

The church leaders wrote that America has a right to control its borders and that they weren't condoning illegal immigration. Still, they said it's impossible to deport the more than 10 million illegal immigrants living in the United States and that society ought to embrace them.

"We want solutions to the immigration question that resolves the immigration question, that does not just diminish people," Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas said in an interview.

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