Oh, Canada! St Peter Helps Bussed Migrants

As migrant crisis worsens, Fox suggests video shows migrants led from border state bus to DC’s St. Peter’s Catholic Church for succor; btw, they’ll also have access to Catholic Charities lawyers to press asylum claims. Anything else?

While DC Mayor Bowser is begging for the National Guard to help her city manage as well as house the busloads of migrants allegedly arriving from Texas, Florida & Arizona, St. Peter’s “recently launched efforts to provide [humanitarian] assistance for the migrants” on its own. Located steps away from the Capitol, St. Peter’s is actually just one of many faith-based institutions in the DC-area trying (as its website post explains) to “provide meals, respite & transportation help for hundreds of immigrants who are arriving in DC by bus daily.”

But, less publicized is that the DC & regional Catholic Charities organizations also make available legal aid services, sometimes for free, to these same migrants. The DC Catholic Charities’ legal aid website, e.g., published in Spanish as well as English, notes that for $80 (with possibility of financial assistance), new arrivals can ask online for an “intake” consultation & legal representation “on a range of legal services” including: “Asylum” … “Unaccompanied Alien Children or UAC’s petitions” … “Removal Defense before the Immigration Court” … etc. As Mayor Bowser has argued, accepting migrants entering the US illegally is a “human rights” issue & busloads of migrants arriving in her town a “humanitarian crisis.” What about health care, schooling & job placement for these poor? Catholic & other Churches provide those services too? Are we seeing a “role” reversal from that Canadian Christian scandal, where the gullible religious were used in gov't's alleged native “genocide” effort way back when & that Pope Francis just apologized for on behalf of Church?

Davd Soul