Vatican Official Criticizes U.S. Border Fence Plan
By PETER KIEFER Published: November 14, 2006
ROME, Nov. 14 A top Vatican official called the Bush administrations plans
for hundreds of miles of new security fences on the United States-Mexico border
inhuman.
Speaking of borders, I must unfortunately say that in a world that greeted the
fall of the Berlin Wall with joy, new walls are being built between
neighborhood and neighborhood, city and city, nation and nation, said Cardinal
Renato Martino, according to news agency reports.
Cardinal Martino, who heads the Vaticans Council for Justice and Peace, was
presenting Pope Benedict XVIs message for the Roman Catholic Churchs World
Day of Migrants and Refugees at a news conference today.
When he was asked specifically about the plan to construct 700 more miles of
border security fences in the Southwest, Cardinal Martino offered praise for
the Catholic bishops in Mexico and the United States who have spoken against
it. He called the plan an inhuman program, which is what the construction of
that wall and all others is, according to Reuters.
The security-fence plan figured prominently in the recent American midterm
elections. Proponents say the fence is needed to help stem a tide of illegal
immigrants slipping into the country far from major highways and formal border
crossings; opponents say it will cause more problems, whether environmental,
humanitarian or financial, than it solves.
Cardinal Martino also decried modern-day human trafficking, specifically the
forced prostitution of women and child labor.
Its worse than the slavery of those whose slaves who were taken from Africa
and brought to other countries, said Cardinal Martino. In a world which
proclaims human rights left and right, lets see what it does about the rights
of so many human beings which are not respected, but trampled.
In his message, the pope also addressed immigration problems in Europe,
especially those involving migrants from Muslim countries.
Much is already being done for the integration of the families of immigrants,
although much still remains to be done, he said, but it is necessary to
provide for legislative, juridical and social intervention to facilitate such
an integration.
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