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‘Immoral’: Archdiocese says Mexicans who help build border wall are ‘traitors’

MEXICO-US-BORDER-MIGRANTS

Tijuana's Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barron prays for migrants at the US-Mexico border fence in Tijuana, northwestern Mexico on March 19, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / GUILLERMO ARIAS

Deacon Greg Kandra - published on 03/27/17

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From Reuters:

Mexicans who help build President Donald Trump’s planned border wall would be acting immorally and should be deemed traitors, the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico said on Sunday, turning up the heat on a simmering dispute over the project.


In a provocative editorial, the country’s biggest Archdiocese sought to increase pressure on the government to take a tougher line on companies aiming to profit from the wall, which has strained relations between Trump and the Mexican government.


“Any company intending to invest in the wall of the fanatic Trump would be immoral, but above all, its shareholders and owners should be considered traitors to the homeland,” said the editorial in Desde la fe, the Archdiocese’s weekly publication.
On Tuesday, Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo warned firms it would not be in their “interests” to participate in the wall. But the editorial accused the government of responding “tepidly” to those eyeing the project for business.
A spokesman for the Archdiocese, which centers on Mexico City and is presided over by the country’s foremost Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Norberto Rivera, said the editorial represented the views of the diocese.


Trump says he wants to build the wall to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the U.S. southern border. He has pledged Mexico will pay for the wall, which the Mexican government adamantly says it will not do.


The Desde la fe editorial, which was published online, said the barrier would only feed prejudice and discrimination.

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