NEWS & VIEWS:
Deedy, John
NEWS & VIEWS Illegal Aliens One positive effect of the Vietnamese refugee problem is to point up the anomaly whereby "illegal aliens" are frequently hunted down like runaway slaves, while no...
...It was the first time that the group had taken a public stand on a controversial issue...
...and they do pay taxes...
...As Father Bevilacqua pointed out, much of this is fiction...
...He's followed the former auxiliary bishop of St...
...Catholic Conference appeared before a House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and International Law and asked amnesty for them, a recommendation that was subsequently endorsed by the governing body of the Holy Name Province of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans) in the U.S...
...The more they suffered from Indian attacks, the stronger the frontiermen felt 'the only good Indian is a dead Indian.'" -Ecclesia's Law of Inverse Proportion (figures from the 1975 Official Catholic Directory): Diocesan priests declined by S3 in the U.S...
...and attitudes that make possible the following statement on p. 431: "In the centuries that Indians inhabited North America, they had done little to improve or advance their way of life...
...George G. Higgins of the U.S...
...NEWS & VIEWS Illegal Aliens One positive effect of the Vietnamese refugee problem is to point up the anomaly whereby "illegal aliens" are frequently hunted down like runaway slaves, while no effort is spared in the relocation and resettlement of the Vietnamese refugees-many of whom, it turns out, are here no more legitimately than those Mexicans who were swept up recently in Chicago and given a choice between a one-way bus ticket back to Mexico and two months in Cook County Jail awaiting trial, with deportation almost inevitable...
...His wife, the former Anna Campbell, is working for the administrator of the Human Resources Institute in Brook-line, Mass...
...Maybe this concern for the illegal aliens would have cropped up without the stimulus of the Vietnamese influx...
...Paul-Minneapolis, James P. Shannon, into law and marriage...
...Recently, Msgr...
...When a male assistant prosecutor asked them if they wanted some coffee, Magruder immediately turned to me and said, 'I'll take mine black.'" Odds and Ends -Houghton-Mifflin is catching it from the United Native Americans of San Francisco for its eighth-grade textbook, This Is America's Story...
...But compassion in the one direction demands compassion in other directions as well, including for illegal aliens...
...As canon lawyers, the nuns -Dominican Sister Lucy Vazquez of Media, Pa., and Ursuline Sister Judith Anne Barnhiser of Toledo-were entitled to don at commencement exercises the red biretta, the four-cornered hat which since the Middle Ages has been exclusively associated with men and priests...
...Incidentally, much of the antipathy towards illegal aliens stems from opinion that they take jobs away from unemployed Americans, drain welfare funds and fail to pay taxes...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...We are not in favor of illegality," said Father Anthony J. Bevilacqua, director of the Brooklyn diocese's Migration Office...
...No one begrudges the Vietnamese refugees their fair treatment and last measure of American compassion...
...But it is doubtful...
...They assumed I was a secretary," she remarked...
...Employers withhold taxes and Social Security from their paychecks -or they're supposed to- and though many aliens are eligible for tax refunds, they never apply . . . also for fear of being apprehended...
...Watergate Postscript Jill Vollner, assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate case, declares that she was not taken seriously by the Watergate defendants early in the investigation- simply because she was a woman...
...Objections include references to Indians as "savages" and "hostile savages...
...His work involves research for lawyers handling cases for poor people having problems with housing, welfare rights, bankruptcy, etc...
...bishops...
...They'd rather get down to work in their chosen field," he said...
...implications that American history begins with the whites...
...Thus it was that three American bishops-Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez of Santa Fe, Bishop Gilbert E. Chavez of the San Diego and Auxiliary Bishop Patrick F. Flores of San Antonio- joined in a message last April to President Ford pointing up the "inconsistency" between the intention to bring in over 100,000 Vietnamese aliens and the insistence on deporting thousands of aliens already in the country...
...He spoke on behalf of officials of five dioceses and the center for Migration Studies on Staten Island...
...Most illegal aliens fill jobs that "our own citizens are unwilling to take...
...One hears less of that sort of thing now, and for this maybe one can be grateful for the Vietnamese migration...
...they are not eligible for welfare assistance and furthermore do not seek such benefits for fear of being detected...
...A university official reported that the Sisters wished to avoid the impression that their new positions in the Church make them threats to an all-male priesthood...
...Then, just a fortnight ago, Catholic migration officials in the New York area joined in an appeal for legislation granting amnesty to illegal aliens...
...But, he added, "simple compassion demands that we react to the plight of otherwise law-abiding illegal aliens who are here now and have built up equity-in jobs, by establishing families, by enrolling their children in local schools, etc...
...As recently as last February, for instance, a major U.S...
...Instead, the Sisters chose to wear the more familiar mortarboard with red tassel...
...Should the Indian be allowed to stop settlement and progress?' the white man asks...
...Opportunity Lost The first doctorates in canon law, a pontifical degree, to be awarded to women by Catholic University went last month to two nuns...
...And, happy day, voices have grown stronger for the illegal alien...
...Kelly, 57, is now performing legal services in Providence as part of the requirement for a law degree from Northeastern University in Boston...
...Kelly told an interviewer that he had hoped his resignation would put "pressure" on the hierarchy to change, but observed that after four years he did not think the bishops had changed much...
...bishops increased by 16 to 313...
...Liberation News Service quotes Vollner on her first meeting with Jeb Magruder and his lawyer...
...The Ex-Bishop Route What's become of Bernard M. Kelly, the former auxiliary bishop of Providence, R.I., and Vietnam-war critic, who resigned from the hierarchy in 1971 in frustration over what he called the intransigence of the U.S...
...Since then, the Vienamese refugees have arrived, of course--130,000 strong...
...during 1974 to 36,005...
...archdiocese was suspected of "collaborating" with immigration agents in hunting down illegal aliens, whose cases were then disposed of, allegedly, with no regard for due-process regulations...
Vol. 102 • June 1975 • No. 7
