Vatican newspaper denounces Texas governor’s border-protection measures
August 23, 2023
With the headline “Quel filo disumano“ [That inhuman wire], the Vatican newspaper devoted the most prominent story in its August 22 edition to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border-protection measures, which the Biden administration has challenged in court.
Citing a Houston Chronicle article and a statement from the state’s bishops, L’Osservatore Romano‘s Isabella Piro wrote that “beyond the political debate, the emergency is humanitarian,” as she referred to “the drama of hundreds of exhausted people camped out at Eagle Pass and denied even a sip of water. The horror of four-year-olds passed out from heat and exhaustion. The tragedy of a pregnant girl who miscarried because she got entangled in barbed wire.”
Piro concluded with a reference to the “ideal carved on the Statue of Liberty: ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’“
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Aug. 23, 2023 10:41 PM ET USA
It's a federal problem that is being forced on the border states. Abbott does not control the unlimited number of dollars the federal government has been printing nonstop for more than 2 years. He has to make do with more limited means. There is a lot of uninhabited land between El Paso and Tucson, enough to house all the bona fide refugees coming across the border even now. The money sent by Biden to kill Ukrainians in the meat grinder would be better spent building housing along the border.
