Kevin Appleby
Kevin Appleby
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We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.
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We don't look at this as, 'Oh, here is a new group of Hispanics we have to compete over with other faiths.
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It's a natural reaction when you feel people are here outside the law, that they should be stopped or sent back. But people need to understand greater forces are at play than a person deciding to cross a border - that in globalization, for example, labor is moving as much as capital.
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It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need.
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Our lawyers have interpreted when you add the word 'assist,' it could mean anything from providing soup in a soup kitchen, to letting someone stay a night, to giving someone water. A prosecutor could use that language to come after you.