El Paso bishop calls Texas AG Paxton a hypocrite for his stance on Dreamers

AUSTIN — El Paso's Catholic bishop called Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton a modern-day Pharisee after Paxton threatened the federal government with a lawsuit if it didn't phase out a program that gives temporary work permits to people who entered the country illegally as children.

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of the Roman Catholic Diocese of El Paso wrote a column in response to Paxton's request, in which he criticized Paxton for failing to imitate "God's compassion toward those forced by life's circumstances to carry heavy loads."


"When I read that he and the other attorneys general had come out with that statement, it really made me angry," Seitz said in an interview. "It's kind of the same feeling that you get when you hear that some big bully on the playground is picking on the little kids."
He said that Paxton is painting with a broad brush, applying the law to "every jot and tittle," without taking into consideration the impact it will have on the people who rely on these permits.


"We already have made the immigrant community live in fear," he said. "I think it's an extremely sad thing to find in our country, when millions of people have been made to live in fear. Now we want to do this to their children? I just felt that I needed to say something. Somebody needs to speak for them."
The Attorney General's Office declined to comment on Seitz's column.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/new...ers/451989001/

Maybe enough people can shame these Attorney generals into backing down? In hind sight the Obama administration should have moved to have the dapa case cleared and dismissed from the Hanen court after the Supreme Court ruling .

If republicans throw us back in the shadow the PR nightmare that will come will force their hand to compromise.

Look at them being shamed to stop their healthcare bill.

It's strange the DAPA case isn't automatically dismissed after the memo was cancelled. I'm not knowledgeable about this kind of thing, so I suppose that's just how it is.

We need this kind of outrage in the media. Without the coverage and negative blowback, they WILL push us back in the shadows.

The people who voted for these guys have no shame. They are cheering SB-4 and throwing you back in the shadows.

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