Author Topic: What they say the pope didnt do (Read 4881 times)

poche · « **on:** March 30, 2014, 11:45:21 PM »

immigrant to the United States whose daughter asked Pope Francis for help in stopping her father's deportation has been released from custody, but U.S. immigration officials said there was no papal intervention.

Mario Vargas-Lopez was free on bond from a detention center in Louisiana three days after his 10-year-old daughter, Jersey Vargas, delivered her message to the pope. He was reunited with his family in Los Angeles on Friday.

Jersey Vargas was part of a coalition from Southern California that traveled to Vatican City on Wednesday to deliver letters to the pope from children of undocuмented parents, according to "The Tidings," published online by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez.

The girl was able to speak briefly with the pope and told him, "My father is suffering," according to the publication. The delegation hoped to convince the pope to discuss immigration reform in his visit with President Barack Obama two days later
Vargas-Lopez was arrested in Tennessee in September on a drunk driving charge and served a six month sentence. Upon his release he was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and held in a Louisiana detention facility until he could appear before a judge for removal proceedings, said Bryan Cox, agency spokesman in New Orleans.

But relatives and friends of the Vargas-Lopez family raised $5,000 to post bond, his lawyer, Alex Galvez, said on Saturday. A judge had approved the bond request several days before the girl met with the pope, but the money was not available until late this week, Galvez said.

The bond amount was not changed as the result of his daughter asking the pope to intercede, Cox said. Vargas-Lopez is required to stay in communication with ICE and tell agency officials where he is pending his next court appearance, Cox said.

"Him being released on bond in no way translates into special action on his behalf," Cox said. "This was standard procedure."

Galvez agreed that the release was unrelated to the daughter's visit with the pope. He said her message to the Catholic leader was related to the larger need to improve an immigration system in the United States that separates families.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-releases-immigrant-says-unrelated-daughters-plea-pope-001955283.html

Thorn · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2014, 11:49:58 PM »

The families wouldn't be separated if they ALL went back from whence they came, now would they?

Do we need more drunk, unlicensed drivers here?

crossbro · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2014, 01:12:01 AM »

I recall a few years back when an African American woman serving in the military came home from Iraq to attend her son's funeral.

Her son was killed was by an illegal alien.

The Church here in the United States needs to counsel these lawbreakers to go home and stop stealing opportunity and resources and to stop living a lie. Right now the liberal social justice catholics are perpetuating sin by promoting lies and law breaking.

poche · « **Reply #3 on:** April 09, 2014, 03:37:44 AM »

The young girl who asked Pope Francis to intercede with U.S. President Barack Obama on behalf of the children of deported immigrants has been reunited with her father after a two-year separation.

On March 26, 10-year-old Jersey Vargas met with Pope Francis and gave him more than 1500 letters from children with similar stories to her own.

Just a few days later, on March 29, she was able to embrace her father, Mario Vargas, upon arriving at Los Angeles International Airport.

Mr. Vargas, an undocuмented immigrant detained by officials six months ago after he was caught driving without a license, was released from a federal detention center in Louisiana on March 28.

Unable to find work in Los Angeles, where his family was living, he had spent the previous two years working in construction in Tennessee and Louisiana.

“Words cannot express what my daughter has done for me,” he told the Archdiocese of Los Angeles newspaper The Tidings.

“It’s been so difficult to be separated from my family. There are many men [in detention] that are suffering. They don’t want to be locked up away from their families – it’s a sad place.”

Commenting on her experience meeting Pope Francis, the young Vargas told reporters, “For me he is a marvelous person. He’s the closest to God.”

She said that when she asked the Holy Father to intercede with U.S. President Barack Obama for her father, the Pope responded, “Yes, I will talk to the president about this.”

Pope Francis met with Obama in the Vatican the following day, March 27.

“We have all felt a divine providence in this,” said Mario Vargas’ lawyer, Alex Galvez, who accepted the case pro bono. “We can’t explain how this has come to pass.”

The judge who heard Mr. Vargas’ case reduced bail from $15,000 to $5,000 on account of good behavior, Galvez said. While other obstacles still remain, he said that the toughest part is behind them.

“Jersey’s little voice has been heard across the United States,” Galvez said.

Before leaving for the Vatican, Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles gave the young girl a medal of Our Lady of Guadalupe to carry with her on the trip to the Vatican.

Vargas, who had been afraid to fly, said she found consolation in the gift, and knew the Blessed Mother was with her. Mario’s wife, Lola, sent an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe to the detention center, mixed in with family photos. It was a great solace to him as well.

“Please take care of my children, please take care of my children,” he would pray. “I kept asking God for help.”

Lola, who has carried the family financially while her husband has been in custody, believes God did just that.

“It’s a miracle,” she said. “God put people in our lives to help us.”

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/after-meeting-pope-daughter-of-immigrants-reunites-with-father/

RomanCatholic1953 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 26, 2014, 10:57:13 AM »

Illegal immigrants get free medical care at any U.S. Hospital, they get
free college tuition in most U.S. States. They get their housing cost
and rents paid for by the tax payers, and driver licenses without
a required written test. Plus all the welfare benefits, And so on etc., etc.
Few of these ever goes to a U.S. Citizen.
In Mexico, it is difficult to become a citizen. Mexico immediately deports
all illegal immigrants, and a second offense leads to jailing and imprisonment.
The reason this is happening is because the un catholic and un Christian,
and mostly Jєωιѕн elites wants it this way. To divide and conquer, to bring
about a more totalitarian government in which all will lose freedom,
and the government that is not responsive to the will of the people
because of massive corruption, and a mass media that constantly
lies and deceives and lures the masses to sleep through sports, and
other trivial things and events.