“To close the border and leave them there, that is madness.”
Forget Biden debating Trump. He should debate Pope Francis. Both are elderly men with the habit of saying completely insane things that undermine whatever point they’re trying to make.
The Catholic leader said in a “60 Minutes” interview with Norah O’Donnell that American leaders should instead embrace forgiveness toward migrants entering the country.
“That is madness. Sheer madness,” Francis said. “To close the border and leave them there, that is madness.”
“The migrant has to be received,” he continued, advocating against GOP efforts to close the southern border. “Thereafter, you see how you are going to deal with him. Maybe you have to send him back, I don’t know, but each case ought to be considered humanely.”
“Migration is something that makes a country grow,” he said. “They say that you Irish migrated and brought the whiskey, and that the Italians migrated and brought the mafia. Migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot.”
I’m just as happy he didn’t get around to whatever stereotypical image he had of Jewish and Polish immigrants even while painting the Irish as drunks and Italians as the mob. Two groups that formed the base of the American Catholic community. And the groups he would want to win over with his argument.
Pope Francis doesn’t seem to understand the difference between legal immigration and mass illegal invasion, but to be fair he’s been living in Europe where the difference hasn’t existed for a decade. It’s like trying to explain to a California socialist why shoplifting is wrong. The concept doesn’t even exist anymore. Having a million Muslims just show up in your country is how immigration in Europe now works. Wir schaffen das!
There are all sorts of arguments to be made in favor of immigration or even migration, but I have to say that even after hearing a decade’s worth of bad arguments, this one takes the case. “Migration is something that makes a country grow. They say that you Irish migrated and brought the whiskey, and that the Italians migrated and brought the mafia. Migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot.”
This is Borat-level stuff. It’s almost like the entire Pope Francis routine is one big troll by a secret right-winger who’s parodying the mindless condescension of the leftist clergy.
rick says
But each case is not being considered humanely. They came in huge groups and that is how they are processed. Documents are given to them that amount to nothing “Come back in 7 months”, etc. We know certain nations are opening their prisons and getting rid of their worse. And Americans are dying. Being raped and murdered. This is insanity and there is no other country on the face of the earth that is doing this.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
No other country? How about Britain? Canada?
gravenimage says
Grimly, you are right, Infidel. This insanity is all too common all over the West. Even though I am American, I *wish* this were just an American problem.
Barbara says
“Render to Ceaser what is Ceaser’s. Render unto GOD what is GOD’s”. Every country has its laws, and they are to be obeyed. If a law is bad change it. Do not just ignore it. For him to say ignore our migration laws is wrong.
Wellington says
Like Biden, Francis is a buffoon. And like Biden he is not merely a buffoon but a destructive buffoon.
Lots of buffoons in the West nowadays. Tons. And the non-Western world is relishing this. Oh yeah, the suicide of the West continues in full throttle.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Like Biden, Francis is a buffoon.”
Yes, and that is tragic.
Sadly, many Catholics throughout the world still listen to him for “guidance”.
OLD GUY says
Why not load a couple dozen plane loads on illegal migrants and send them to the Vatican. I’am sure Francis will move them right in with him.
gravenimage says
Time to mention here that that large wall around the Vatican was built to keep out invading Muslims–specifically, marauding Saracen pirates.
gravenimage says
And Francis is not just enjoining Catholics to help ‘poor immigrants’, but is smearing Americans in the process–much uglier.
Cato the Elder says
First and foremost, Pope Francis is a socialist, always has been. We have no responsibility to people who come here illegally, who jump to the front of the line and push out the people doing it legally. It’s a slap in the face to all the people who waited their turn and paid $10k or more to become an American.
The Lifeboat theory says that the lifeboat can hold X number of people. If X+1 swims up and attempts to get in, the boat swamps and everyone drowns. We’re a very rich country, but EVERY nation have an X+1 limit. Chicago and NYC looked the other way, looked down on the border states trying to handle the horde coming across – until the illegal migrants got shipped to their respective cities.
NOW it’s a problem. I’m not sure it would have been until the citizens of sanctuary cities started tripping over the illegals. We don’t have to accept everyone who can run across our borders (or the ones Biden is flying in from foreign countries).
This should be a hanging offense.
Paco says
Pope Francis is a full-on communist and very evil human being.
maria says
absolutely. A typical liar who should not be Pope. How could Catholics choose such a monster as Pope
Barbara says
We didn’t choose him. The cardinals voted him in.
Franics is from a socialist country. Many Nazis left after WWII and settled in Argentina. They took their politics with them, and it spread to the locals born there.
THE DICTATOR POPE by Marcantonio Colonna details the maneuvering and conniving employed to get where he is today. He spent years not abiding by the rules and conning people.
James Lincoln says
Barbara says,
“He spent years not abiding by the rules and conning people.”
Also sounds like sleepy Joe.
Hoi Polloi says
Book recommendations are always appreciated.
abu taleb says
Then Vatocan should open its door and receive muslim migrants. It doesn’t have to be a lot, probably 5-10 thousands migrants is enough.
Greg says
And I thought Biden was bad enough!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The pope has no jurisdiction over anybody other than Catholics. Biden, otoh…..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, and they should be within Vatican limits, but not allowed anywhere else in Rome. In other words, Italy shouldn’t have to put up w/ a single one
Michael Paul Skok says
You told the pope what needed to be told. He should practice what he preaches. If he takes in muslim immigrants, he should do his Catholic duty and convert them.
FYI says
Maybe francis will his abandon his lefty marxism and return to the Catholic Faith he seems to have abandoned
Maybe he will find Jesus in his jesuitical studies.
Or else he may find himself in that mysterious place he has called a “state of annihilation”, a concept only a jesuit could invent.
A pope is not exempt from Divine Justice.
After all,what did Jesus say about those who cause others to lose faith?
Pope francis and his administration presume too much on God’s mercy:Especially if they have caused a loss of faith.
Hoi Polloi says
“The migrant has to received” By whose law? Is he now the supreme law-giver?
“Migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot.” Not a word for their victims, except to throw out the insults; drunks and mobsters. What a terrible man he is.
“This is Borat-level stuff. It’s almost like the entire Pope Francis routine is one big troll by a secret right-winger who’s parodying the mindless condescension of the leftist clergy.”
I love that. Reminds me of The Babylon Bee’s Satan telling Dems they need to tone it down.
somehistory says
The ‘pope’ is evil. And he has made friends with mozlums.
Likely he never read, nor would understand the Apostle James who wrote, “Friendship with world is enmity with God. Whoever makes himself a friend of the world, has made himself an enemy of God.” (James 4:4)
No one who wishes to please the God of the Bible, should listen to the pope.
And who is he to tell Americans how to run the country? Let everyone in and then ask them why they are here? And then send some of them home….because **every one** of them ….millions of them… deserve a chance?
They just keep coming. How would it ever end?
No one should ever listen to the ‘pope’ and everyone to whom he attempts to tell what to do, should tell him to go fly a kite.
Hoi Polloi says
He needs to provide us with the level of security he has and tell us just what merits sending one back. Then he can pay for them. After he explains why so many muslims are so desperate to associate with drunks and mobsters.
somehistory says
HP, I’m part Irish and I don’t drink, so I’ve never been drunk.
Isn’t his claim about Irish and Italians being drunks and mobsters, one of those things people have said for years not to do?
Bigotry based on ethnicity, ancestry, and stereotyping…shame on him.
mozlums belong to a cult that is so much like the mafia….one could say islam was the first mob-rule…
When I watched Law and Order, the voiceover would say, “stories ripped from the headlines,”
There were a couple of episodes I recall about rival mobs…the chinese, the russians, the long-known mafia and cosa nostra….fighting over the territory.
mozlums want to beat up on all of those groups and be top mob.
Hoi Polloi says
I likewise have found these people, who as Mr. Greenfield notes are predominantly Catholic, to be fine people. He’s bigoted and insulting. It’s well past time for him to speak truthfully about islam.
somehistory says
I have known a lot of Catholics; some close friends.
This know-nothing pope is not likely to change his direction. Too much pomposity and arrogance.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Daniel
I hadn’t even considered this: this is one of the few things that could explain his behavior. It’s another thing that he’s destroying his church in the process. Maybe he’s a closet Protestant ?
Reziac says
Nope, he’s just an aging communist, and communism seen through the lens of oncoming senile dementia makes even less sense.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Reziac.
Burnaby Lad says
Micks and Wops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc5HEuuPAcg
Reziac says
Francis is a “red diaper baby” — a communist raised by communist parents. You can’t expect him to make sense to normal people.
Hopefully the next Pope will be a real one.
martin walden says
The USA is lucky in that the hordes using the asylum loophole to enter the USA are emigrants from non-Muslim countries. They’ll be assimilated. It is the Muslim immigrants who will not assimilate and replace our democracy with Sharia law. Witness what is happening in so many European countries that gave Muslim refugees a home.
gravenimage says
Actually, Martin, many Jihadists are comng in over the southern bornder now.
somehistory says
The “hordes” include many, many mozlums from all of the various mozlum-ruined nations.
Besides the thousands coming from china.
Just recently, the two mozlums on the terror watch lists, came here from jordan.
And many of the photos and videos show many from the ME, South Africa and other areas heavy with mozlums.
Phil Copson says
The correct answer to the age-old rhetorical question: “Is the Pope Catholic?” is “No – he’s a South American Marxist.”
Waldorf says
Indeed. Hear, hear!
CelticRebel says
+1
gravenimage says
+1
Hoi Polloi says
Good one.
Scotsman48 says
This wee Pope fella lives in a massive Mansion behind a Massive Wall that was built centuries ago to keep the islamic warriors out and protected by Swiss Guards but he tells everybody else to welcome and bring into their country or their home a few thousand followers of a Fascist Religious Cult that are taught to kill you…
What could possibly go wrong… go wrong… go wrong… go wrong… go wrong..
England Invaded says
Well they are largely drunks and mobsters but that’s still no reason.
Nabil Bissada says
I THINK POPE FRANCIS DO NOT HAVE ANY IDEA THAT THE MULSIM MIGRANTS HAVE A PLAN TO INVADE AND OCCUPY THE VATICAN. AND TURNED TO AN ISLAMIC CENTER BASE.
AFTER THE MUSLIMS INVADE THE VATICAN, THEY WILL ASK THE POPE TO CONVERT TO ISLAM THE DEVILISH RELGION.
IF THE POPE OF ROME REFUSE, TO CONVERT TOI SLAM THE MUSLIM MIGRANTS WILL GIVE HIM TWO CHOICES.
-MUST PAY THE GYZIA (MORE TAXES) ACCORDING TO THE SHARIA LAW (
-THEY WILL MURDER HIM AS UNFIDEL.
-WHEN POPE FRANCIS ASKING TO OPEN THE BORDERS OF THE WESTERN COUNTRIES MUSLIMS ARE CONSIDERING HIM AS TO NAIVE.
-I WAS THINKING THAT THE POPE FRANCIS WILL ASK THE WESTERN COUNTRIES TO OPEN THE BORDERS AND ACCEPT THE MIGRANTS FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
AT LEAST THEY WILL NEVER ASK TO CHANGE THE WESTERN CONTITUTIONS AND TO BE REPLACED BY THE SHARIA LAW SAME AS MUSLIMS TARGETS.
– MUSLIM IN THE WESTERN COUNTRIES. IF STILL BELIEVE ON THE KORAN AND THE SHARIA LAW MEANS IS A TIMING BOMB.
DO THE WESTERN LEADERS HAVE A PLAN TO ISLAMIZE THEIR COUNTRIES AND TO GIVE A MISERABLE AND NO SECURE LIFE FOR THEIR CITIZENS?
–
James Lincoln says
So, Pope Francis, two questions:
1. Have you torn down the wall that protects Vatican City?
2. How many muslim migrants now live in Vatican City?
somehistory says
Answering your questions, James….
First is No.
Second: at least one. He “immigrated” to Italy from Argentina around 2013 and quickly began advocating for his fellow mozlum brothers, to convince Christians to accept them and give hospitality….ignoring, a.k.a. hiding, the fact that his bro’s would harm the poor Christians.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
What he should be doing – in his position – is to try to convert muslims to Christianity.
somehistory says
Agreed, James.
Jesus gave many commandments. One of the final ones before He returned to Heaven was that His disciples would be “making disciples, teaching and baptizing them.”
the pope acts more like he’s trying to convert Christians to islam.
Hoi Polloi says
Exactly. His sole job regarding mohammedans is to teach and to inspire to discipleship.
James Lincoln says
Yes, somehistory.
✝️
Kevin Kraemer says
The dope is encouraging “migrants” aka illegal aliens to disregard a sovereign nation’s law and enter the country without permission. How ludicrous is that? Well, what do you expect from someone who has eisegesis the Word with his own interpretation to fit “his” understanding? He either is intentionally misrepresenting, or he is confused, or demon possessed. Take your pick. Probably all of the above.
FYI says
Jorge Bergoglio!
TEAR DOWN THESE VATICAN WALLS!
Come on,let the little people in!
And you can move out of your apartment,put on sackcloth and ashes in atonement for your catastrophic failings as a pontiff…….. and go live in a cardboard bx.
It is what Jesus would want ,isn’t it?
gravenimage says
🙂
CelticRebel says
?
FYI says
Further..
Open those closets and set those skeletons FREE
When will Greta Thunberg be canonized?
How are all the ecclesistucal freemasons doing in Rome?The “smoke of satan” club
You wouldn’t be in the running for the leader of New World Religion?yeah {I think you might…}
pachamama,pachamama..Bismilliah no!We will not let you go..
Ralph says
The Catholic Corporation is struggling for customers. The Pup should look in a mirror to understand why this is so.
Yes, Francis should open the walls of the Vatican to migrants, but unfortunately his philosophy, as typical for all despots, is “Do as I say, not as I do”.
CelticRebel says
??Amen??
gravenimage says
Pope Francis: U.S. Should Have Open Borders Because Irish are Drunks and Italians are Mobsters
………………………………..
Many Italians and Irish are good Catholics. How do they like being smeared by their own Pontiff? Just grotesque.
And of course, even if these vicious cliches *were* true–which they are not; I am part Irish, and don’t drink at all, and the Italian mob has been pretty much wiped out in the US decades ago–they would not of course lead to the conclusion that this means that we have to open our borders to untrammeled immigration, including that of criminals and terrorists.
Hoi Polloi says
Agree in full. The Irish out protesting aren’t seeking drink, they’re justifiably guarding their children and communities. They’re clearly family-oriented and patriotic. They’ve fought for the Catholic Church over the centuries. They point out that their electeds didn’t house Irish homeless. His reaction is to slander them.
Interestingly, the part of Italy that continues to have the biggest mafia problem is the part closest to the islamic world and its trafficking. The Italians I know are very family-oriented, appreciative of beauty, heavily Catholic, and careful to avoid mob ties. It’s as if Francis doesn’t even look out the window or have any consciousness of what it means to be so insulting of the country that surrounds his heavily guarded enclave.
James Lincoln says
Hoi Polloi,
My father came from a very large Italian family. Family reunions, which I attend regularly, are wonderful. Great food, drink, and camaraderie.
And not one person connected to organized crime.
But, admittedly, some of them could have certainly been cast as “extras” in the Godfather (1972).
Hoi Polloi says
You’re fortunate; that’s a real blessing. The food is superb and the bonds are very strong. The schools were great, with caring, very competent staff. I love Italy.
PatriotLiz says
I knew from the get-go that a Jesuit Pope would be trouble. The Catholic Church is infiltrated by Communists.