AN OPPORTUNITY FOR POPE FRANCIS TO CONDEMN THE REAL AND UNDERLYING CAUSE OF THE MIGRATION CRISIS

One of Pope Francis’ most heartfelt concerns centers upon migration of people forced from their native lands.

Pope Francis is urging the nations of the world to take in as many refugees as possible.

The Pontiff told reporters that he believes it is incumbent on governments to “welcome, to accompany, to place, to integrate” as many refugees as their societies can reasonably accommodate.

“Each country must do this with the virtue of government, which is prudence, and take in as many refugees as it can, as many as it can integrate, educate, give jobs to,” Pope Francis said during the in-flight press conference on his way back from Geneva.

“We are living through a flood of refugees who are fleeing war and hunger,” the Pope said.

In an article I posted related to this story, I called the Holy Father to task for his constant criticism of nations seeking to protect their sovereign borders as well as the fact that he almost never seems to call the corrupt national leaders who cause so much death and suffering (and force their citizens to leave their native lands) to worldwide accountability and outrage.

This week, the entire Police Force of the town of Ocampo in the Western State of Mexico is under arrest, and is being questioned about the shooting death of a businessman who was candidate for Mayor.

Fernando Angeles Juarez was shot dead by a group of gunmen in the town of Ocampo. He's the third mayoral candidate to be murdered in the wild Western State of Michocan in just over a week.

Prosecutors accused the local Police Chief Oscar Gonzalez Garcia of involvement. 

But when Federal Police went to arrest him, his Officers, who outnumbered them, prevented it.

So they went away and returned with re-inforcements arresting him and all his colleagues, numbering 28.

This coming Sunday is Presidential Election Day in Mexico.

There are also simultaneous Congressional and local Elections. More than 100 politicians have been murdered by organized crime.

Now, if the Holy Father is as concerned about migration issues and the suffering of so many, I would expect him to bring this story to the court of world opinion and solidly denounce the government of Mexico from the window of the Papal Palace with the same vehemence he musters in criticizing the United States for its policies aimed at securing the nation’s legitimate borders.

I shall be eager to see what the Vatican has to say about this and related stories of terror and corruption in the countries of Central and South America which continue to wash a wave of illegal immigration to the shores of the United States.

If the past is any indication of what to expect, then the Pope’s words concerning the real and underpinning causes of migration will be as misguided as they have always been.