Joseph Capizzi, professor, moral theology, and director, IHE, was interviewed for a Catholic News Agency story on immigration and families being separated at the U.S. border.
... Dr. Joseph Capizzi, a professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America, told CNA that the “vast majority” of families in separation cases pose no threat to U.S. security. Instead, Capizzi said that Catholics should look to fix the reasons people are leaving their home countries for the United States. Otherwise, he said, there will be no end to the immigration issue.
Many of the parents are seeking asylum in the United States, citing violent or deprived conditions in their home countries.
Capizzi said the United States “needs always to couple our border policies with compassion for the dignity of families and of human beings.”
“As Bishop Flores [of Brownsville, Texas] said, we must join with other countries in Central America and address the ‘push’ factors that lead to the risky and numerous emigrations of so many people from those countries.” ...
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