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Father Bascio presents a strikingly different perspective on illegal immigration from that of most Christian clergymen. He turns his spotlight on the harm of officially tolerated illegal immigration to America's own struggling workers in the form of joblessness, shrinking wages and poorer working conditions. African-American workers, already plagued by job discrimination, bear the heaviest burden of the illegal invasion, which locks them out of many workplaces or drives wages below acceptable levels. The chronic non-enforcement of immigration laws is no accident: Congress has little stomach for ending something so profitable for their most powerful donors and the voters they can muster. The author fears that many committed Christians are blinded to these abuses by their church leaders' preoccupation with charity toward illegal aliens, while ignoring the plight of millions of low-wage Americans. He deftly rebuts the self-serving myth of employers' and politicians' that illegals "do jobs Americans won't do." Bascio also sees the profit motive behind legal immigration policies that lure the third world's best and brightest to America, stripping poorer nations of their physicians, teachers and scientists. As a Catholic priest, the author admits the unpleasantness of taking a position not shared by his Church's hierarchy, which is driven by the prospect of rising membership. Bascio sees unchecked illegal immigration as having grave consequences for overall U.S. tranquility: disdain for the rule of law, street gangs, docuмent fraud and identity theft, staggering welfare and education costs and creeping "Balkanization" that threatens the national principle of E Pluribus Unum. Father Bascio's book is a resounding appeal to Christians to re-examine their churches' conventional view of illegal immigration and consider the hardship it brings for fellow Americans and its dangers for the nation as a whole.


About the Author

Father Patrick Pascio is a retired Catholic priest, international human rights expert, professor and writer whose long ministry has included assignments in the U.S., Tanzania and the Caribbean islands. In Trinidad he taught at the University of the West Indies and, in Grenada, advised the Prime Minister and represented that country on U.N. committees. He founded and directed Salve Regina University's PhD program and directed its Master's program in Humanities. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran of World War II. Father Bascio has two master's degrees in the social sciences and a doctorate. A prolific writer, Bascio's works since 1994 include The Failure of White Theology: A Black Theological Perspective (1994); Gorbachev and the Collapse of the Soviet Communist Party (with Evgueny Novikov -1994); Defeating Islamic Terrorism: The Wahabi Factor (2006); and Perfidy: the Government Cabal that Knowingly Abandoned Our Prisoners of War (2008).

most Catholic sites...I had a friend that would agree with FE...somehow these immigrants are somehow bringing in a huge Catholic revival of culture, blah,blah,blah.......most quickly jump ship to whoever gives them the biggest goodies and cuddles them.......many living in adultery and shacked up,e tc........

not to say we do not either, but these are people somehow superior to us to people liek this guy and most of hieracy.....

also, they give very little in $$ to churches......but take a lot......

also, they have to solve their nations problems in nation......not relocating by the millions.......

cannot blame them with no work, crushing starvatio nand poverty, but in the end, it is a cutlure clash that hurts both sides and again, never solves the problems in their nations...

exactly, but seeing the crappy society we havein USA, former freind went, as he was prone to do, to extremes-put them on a pedastal, whitewashing or ignoring any negative aspects.....his answer was "Well, blacks and whites do this too" attitude.a real deep seated angst against his own, white western Europeans...

he flat out refused to even consider dating a white woman, always found an excuse or had response like "well, she is likely some feminist Oprah watcher" sort of thing...

tended to whig out of a negative comment or discussion was raised against Hispanics.....

too bad, but he would not listen to any facts you note......always a deflecting response.....

he was, last I heard, dating a woman in Columbia, but not sure if that is still going on....

I am sure stevus being in the military has seen the above scenario quite a few times amongst service members.

We cant keep out illegals! After all, who would we send to go fight in Iraq and Afghanistan?  :surprised:

Half joking, but we really do recruit a good lot of immigrants for the military. My cousin (Hispanic btw) went to go enlist in the army in 04 and got rejected because he had a record...however.... all the illegal Mexican immigrants who were waiting in line behind him all got accepted and they were all told that they would get green-cards when their term of service was up. But of course this is nothing new. We did the same thing in WWII with the Germans. At this point the illegals are the Fed's cannon fodder.

What about the Moors and Turks? I know yall got legions of them over there.

*Not debating, just asking*

failure to remember history,,,same in Spain I hear