Vatican agency denounces 'ineffectiveness and violence' of US immigration restrictions
January 05, 2009
In a harsh denunciation of US immigration policies, the Fides news service-- an arm of the Vatican's Congregation for Evangelization-- has praised the US bishops' conference for opposing "the ineffectiveness and violence" of border-security measures, particularly the fence proposed for the Mexican border. Fides, which usually restricts its coverage to news of missionary fields, has issued a lengthy dossier on US immigration issues. The 12-page document charges that efforts to block illegal immigration from Mexico have "increased the number of persons killed while attempting to cross the border line, enriched human traffickers (smugglers), encouraged in total ambiguity employers who apply norms similar to those of dependence in a regime of slavery, strangle illegal workers with a starvation wage and massacring working-hours, under the blackmail of non-existence."
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