Corporatist Nuns for Illegal Activity! (escorts for illegal alien farmworkers)

From our "I'm beyond being shocked at the level that some religious 'leaders' will go to support illegal activity" comes this:

Similar fears have prompted the staff of Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Rochester, N.Y., to consider organizing escort services for the immigrants who work in the region's farms and dairies.

Mercy Sister Janet Korn, social justice awareness coordinator for Catholic Charities, said some area farmers now escort their workers when they go into town for shopping or other business. The workers – and their employers – fear that they'll be targeted for questioning and potential arrest by virtue of their appearance.

...The Catholic Charities staff has discussed formalizing a program to offer such escorts, modeled after services provided to natives of El Salvador who returned to the still-volatile country to reclaim their homes and property when the civil war ended in the early 1990s.

Sister Korn said there are fears that escorts might be charged with crimes for transporting illegal immigrants, so discussions are proceeding cautiously...

I don't really want to see a nun doing the perp walk, so hopefully their parishioners can help prevent that from happening. The best way to do that is to let your local religious "leaders" know that if they support illegal immigration you will publicly challenge their position and show the other parishioners how wrong they are.

Immigration2007b · Tue, 09/18/2007 - 19:47 · · Importance: 1