Pope Francis: U.S. Should Have Open Borders Because Irish are Drunks & Italians are Mobsters
“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.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield
