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Taking note of the 72 murdered migrants in Mexico, the Archdiocese of Mexico City:

The Archdiocese of Mexico City has issued a statement condemning the massacre of 72 migrants from Central and South America. The migrants were likely traveling to the United States.

“It is further evidence of the social disorder and loss of respect for fundamental values present in some parts of the country,” the archdiocese commented, “[and] shows the absence of a comprehensive immigration policy in Mexico that is coherent with the requirements of human mobility in view of a humane treatment of immigrants, as Mexico has required of the United States.”…

This is important given the Catholic Church’s overall views on migration – on the whole, it is not to be deterred. People have a general right to move around. I agree with the teachings of the Church – which is why I back a path to citizenship for the illegals we de-facto invited in, as well as a guest-worker program to allow in those workers we want and need. Justice and mercy requires a rational policy on migrants from all interested parties. But the statement of the Archdiocese points out that neither justice nor mercy being served along the American border – not in any respect at all.

It seems that the 72 victims all refused to become mules for the drug smugglers – and paid for their refusal with their lives. These 72 are also part of the tens of thousands of people murdered in Mexico by the criminal gangs who control the border – and who control it because both the Mexican and American governments refuse to do so.

In Mexico, it seems a bit hopeless – perhaps the leadership of courage and determination will arise to fight a war to the death against the cartels, but I see no signs of it. Mexico has a moral obligation to ensure the lives of the people in Mexican jurisdiction – legal and illegal, permanent resident or just passing through to the United States. Mexico has completely failed in its moral duty, and thus Mexican lectures to us on how to treat migrants have a hollow ring to them.

But Mexico’s failures don’t get us off the hook – we, too, bear responsibility for the murder and mayhem along the border. Our failure is in not securing our border – securing to such an extent that only people legally allowed may cross it. If we were doing that, 72 poor victims would not have sought out the cartels for permission to cross (the border, my friends, is under air-tight control…just not our control, nor Mexico’s control: the drug lords control it, with quite an iron fist); 72 people would not have been ordered to transport drugs; would not have refused, would not be dead.

It is now at the level of criminal negligence to refuse to secure the border. It is a plain and simple crime – and a crime, more over, against the weakest and most helpless among us. Anyone who from this point forward tries to paint border security as racist is now just a tool of the murdering drug cartels – border security is the basic act of mercy and justice required along the border.

Once the border is secure – securely in our hands so that we decide who crosses – then we can address what to do with the illegals already in country and those who wish to come here to work. It is all of a piece – we can’t do anything without first gaining control. If we do anything but security first, then we just consign another 72 to death. And another 72. And another. And another.

Our duty is clear – now, will we do it?