Cardinal Mahony criticizes Arizona immigration bill

The Governor has until Sat. night to decide, let's hope she listens to people like Cardinal Mahony. - - Donna Poisl

Head of L.A.’s Catholic archdiocese likens the bill to techniques used by Nazis and Communists.

By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony lambasted legislation passed Monday by Arizona lawmakers that would crack down on illegal immigrants, likening it to "German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques" that compelled people to turn each other in.

"The Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law," he wrote on his blog. "The tragedy of the law is its totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources. That is not only false, the premise is nonsense."
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