[Padre]

We're going through this in Georgia.

I'm pastor of a church with more than 10,000 members. 90% Hispanic. We do about 600+ baptisms each year, all but 12 in Spanish. I have 1000 kids in our Sunday School, and ALL of them are perfectly bilingual.

A lot of things are being said that simply aren't true. In my church, the IRS came to us several years ago to offer a seminar for Hispanics on how to get Tax ID numbers so they could work legally and pay taxes. These immigrants came, undocumented but commited no crime to get here, and took the jobs, set down roots, and worked and raised their families. For some, this may be as long as 15-20 years ago. This is their home, they were invited, given jobs, and welcomed into the community. And now they can be deported for a traffic offense.

What I find are a lot of politicians hiding behind "rule of law" and "well, if you break the law...", but even though the letter of the intent of the law is pure as the angels, the effect is making our local PD and Deputies Immigration Enforcers. IOW, the politicians hide behind the "rule of law" for something that has always been a policy decision motivated by race. When the economy was good, let 'em come, and now that it's bad, who cares if we've tolerated them for decades, let's send 'em home...

Ironically, it was GWB who had the best plan: work permits (so they can get jobs and driver's licenses and insurance), back of the line for citizenship, and learn English and US Civics.

My town is 50% Hispanic, and they are generational (majority are citizens), but the simple-minded-solution folks don't care that they are destroying families and communities.

You should hope that most of this is declared a violation of the 4th Ammendment if you value your Constitutional Rights. Kids here who look Hispanic (skin color is the only way to tell) are being detained for hours if they have a driver's license (because they are citizens) but don't have documents (because they are not immigrants).

That's your future. Make sure you keep your "Made in the USA" card handy.

Padre Paul Williams, Párroco, Iglesia Católica de San José, Dalton GA