Catholic Bishops Put Religious Right in a Bind

Well, the religious arm of the Republican Party, which is to say MOST of the Republican Party, is now in a bit of a pickle.

Catholic Bishops have come out in support of President Obama's apparent desire to use executive powers to act on immigration.

This is the part where the Republicans show their true colors. The GOP loves to spout the name of the Almighty when it comes to a woman's right to choose and the gays. Seriously, you can't shut them up. I hear more references to God during those debates than I do on most Sundays.

Clergy, not just Catholics by the way, across the country have called comprehensive immigration reform a religious and humanitarian imperative.

But you know what they don't say? They don't say stuff like "secure the border first". Security first is just the GOP's way of kicking the can down the road as long as they possibly can. They have no definition of what a secure border is and so they are starting from a premise that no one understands much less agrees upon.

Put simply, the "party of family values" can't be the ones that are going to be responsible for splitting up families.

Let us not forget, as we go into the Christmas season, that the Holy Family were immigrants.

The hypocrisy of the GOP is all over the place when it comes to the question of immigration. The GOP want to through money at the border to militarize it to the level of the Berlin Wall. Funny how when it comes to funding healthcare and education you can't just throw money at a problem to fix it. But you apparently can when it comes to the border.

The clergy want immigration reform for humanitarian reasons and to keep families together. Yet Republicans call themselves the party of family values.

Lets play this movie out to the end. We all know what we are going to see. We are going to see mobs of angry white people who can't spell with signs terrorizing poor immigrants, shouting at them with bullhorns, waving confederate flags and spitting on a Latino superstar that they think is just another greaser spic to them.

Then ironically our own son of an immigrant Ted Cruz will call it amnesty while simultaneously and ironically invoking the name of Ronald Reagan, (he was the last President to actually implement amnesty by the way) lead the charge to hold America hostage and use the budget, shut down the government, etc to play political football with the issue while he strokes himself before a presidential run that he's going to lose embarrassingly in the future.

Meanwhile, we will continue to have a broken immigration system. We will still have businesses that need workers and we will still have workers who are willing to do the jobs that "real Americans" won't do.

And lets be honest about that while we are talking about it. Immigrants aren't "taking our jobs". Stephen Colbert pretty much put that to rest a couple years ago.

Although when the GOP inevitably screws this up, I guess in a couple years when a lot of congressman find themselves out of work I guess they will say that immigrants took their jobs.

Thats okay, you can always call up the United Farmworkers Union. I'm sure they can hook you up with a nice seasonal job. But you better learn Spanish Ted Cruz, the free market of the fields pretty much demands that you habla.

After all, this is America.