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Pope Francis to stand with migrants at U.S. border
Pontiff's solidarity show packs big political punch
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Pope Francis, who has spent the past several months pressing nations, including America, to embrace those fleeing the unrest in the Middle East, Africa and Asia with open arms – and open borders – is now taking that stance to a new political level and planning a solidarity stand with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.

Market Watch reported Francis is due to arrive in Mexico on Friday for a six-day visit. And as part of that visit, he is planning to stand on the U.S. border, in Ciudad Juarez, and deliver a mass.

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About 200,000 are expected to turn out for the mass on the Mexico side, and another 50,000 from Rio Grande in Texas, the Wall Street Journal reported.

“This is one community, despite the fence,” said Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi, during a press conference reported by Market Watch. “I think it will be moving to see this single community even though it is located on two sides of the border.”

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Pope Francis Set to Take a Stand With Migrants on US-Mexican Border
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2016, 02:39:03 pm »
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Pope Francis Set to Take a Stand With Migrants on US-Mexican Border
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 09:28 AM

By: Loren Gutentag

Pope Francis is set to arrive in Mexico on Friday for a six-day visit that will conclude with the pontiff taking a stand on the U.S. border to show solidarity with the migrants trying to cross it — an act that could be seen as controversial in the height of a vigorous political season where immigration has become a hot-button issue, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The pope is planning to hold a cross border mass in Ciudad Juarez on Feb. 17 where on the Mexican side, some 200,000 people are expected to attend as well as 50,000 in Texas, just across the Rio Grande.

"This is one community despite the fence," Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters on Tuesday. "I think it will be moving to see this single community even though it is located on two sides of the border."

However, Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have vowed to not only build a wall along the nearly 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border, but also deport up to 11 million illegal migrants form the U.S.

According to the Wall Street Journal, this is not the first time Pope Francis, the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina, has advocated for migrant rights.

In his September speech to the U.S. Congress, he urged lawmakers to identify with migrants' hopes for a better life and asked, "Is this not what we want for our own children?" the Wall Street Journal reports.

The pope's visit to Mexico comes at a time when numbers of migrants — especially children — are increasing and hopeful to seek refuge in the U.S.

"There is an urge to flee, because of the very asphyxiation that people feel," said Verónica Reyna, a psychologist with a Catholic Church-linked group working on violence reduction in a gang-plagued suburb of San Salvador.

"In El Salvador, there is a constant paranoia, a permanent fear."

Just before the mass, the pope will ride along the U.S.-Mexican border offering a prayer for migrants, including those escaping violence and gangs in Central America and even those who are fleeting war in the Middle East.
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Re: Pope Francis Set to Take a Stand With Migrants on US-Mexican Border
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2016, 06:40:55 pm »
Maybe he should open up the Vatican to "migrants." I bet there's lots of room.  **nononono*
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Re: Pope Francis Set to Take a Stand With Migrants on US-Mexican Border
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2016, 06:46:40 pm »
Oh isn't that so very kind of the Pope...he wants to demagogue us into solving the problems that he sees.  Sure, we common Americans are viewed by the Pope as a cash machine for him to use.

The Pope can go straight to Hell and talk with someone who agrees totally with him.
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Re: Pope Francis Set to Take a Stand With Migrants on US-Mexican Border
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2016, 10:20:55 pm »
Migrants,,, Frankie??  we don't see no Steenkin Migrants!!
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Re: Pope Francis Set to Take a Stand With Migrants on US-Mexican Border
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2016, 02:49:03 am »
Alternate headline:
Sovereign of Vatican City threatens invasion of United States, using Mexican footsoldiers
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