KC Star Op-Ed Confuses TDS With Catholic Teaching

Bubble Boy Columnist Does Not Know His Immigration History or His Theology.

Kansas City Star columnist David Hudnall lives in a bubble. He assures real estate developers Ryan and Terry Anderson that he has never heard “the Mission Hills and Brookside crowd so disgusted with one of their own.” They are disgusted, says Hudnall, because the Andersons’ company, Platform Ventures, plans to sell a large warehouse to the federal government for use as an ICE detention facility.

If the brothers answered Hudnall’s calls, he would “have asked them how all this is going over at Visitation, the Catholic parish in Brookside where both Andersons are members.” He would have asked as well where the Catholic Church stands “on rounding up immigrants and throwing them in cages?”

This op-ed caught my eye because I am a practicing Catholic who lives in Hudnall’s affluent bubble. On Thursday, January 29, the day the op-ed dropped, I just so happened to have breakfast a block from Visitation with my largely Catholic group of friends. All ten of us registered our disgust not with ICE, but with media know-nothings like Hudnall whose hatred of Donald Trump overrides their common sense.

If Hudnall joins us next Thursday—and he is welcome—we might ask him if he knew President Obama’s leftist critics called him “Deporter-in-Chief”? If he knew about the governmental data, showing “that the Obama administration has deported more people … than the sum of all the presidents of the 20th century”? If he knew Obama awarded Tom Homan, then the DHS assistant director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, the Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service? If he knew that, thanks in no small part to Trump’s enforcement policies, the US registered an unprecedented decline in murders, 21 percent or roughly 4,000 fewer than the year before?

We might also ask Hudnall if he knew ICE rounded up illegals under Obama and Homan with the same tactics they do today? If he has seen the gushing May 2016, CNN ride-along feature titled, “A Day with ICE in the Sanctuary City of Chicago,” back when CNN was expected to like Obama’s ICE? If he can offer any sensible rationale for Biden’s letting 10 million or so illegals cross the border other than to inflate Democrat voter rolls? If he has ever heard of Lakin Riley or Brianna Kelson or Karen Diamond or Camillia Williams or the thousands of other victims of criminally indifferent border enforcement?

Scene from the trial of Jose Ibarra, the illegal alien who murdered Lakin Riley

There is one major difference between enforcement under Obama’s Homan and enforcement under Trump’s Homan, and that is Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS. Homan hasn’t changed. His tactics haven’t changed. What has changed is the onset of a dementia so profound it renders its sufferers incapable of recognizing the deterioration in their reasoning skills.

Yes, ICE has been “deploying masked and anonymous agents using unmarked vehicles.” A good journalist would tell us why. The TDS-inflicted Hudnall chooses not to. Under Obama’s Homan, local law enforcement cooperated with federal authorities. ICE agents weren’t forced into the streets. And when they were, they were not surrounded by howling, TDS-plagued mobs, eager to doxx, obstruct, attack, and threaten the agents’ families.

Mourning Karen Diamond, murdered by illegal alien Mohamed Sabry Soliman

Nor did ICE under Obama’s Homan have to deal with mainstream journalists like Hudnall whose situational flare for the incendiary—“masked men hauling people out of their homes and into warehouses”—only encourages more obstruction, more resistance, more TDS, more death.

As to Catholic teaching, the Church has no fixed position on immigration, but the Church does have one on abortion and euthanasia. In Evangelium Vitae, Saint Pope John Paul II called them “crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize.” Shamefully, the citizens in Hudnall’s Catholic dominant bubble vote routinely for a political party that works to legitimize both.

The leftists that have infiltrated the Church have schemed to raise immigration policy to the moral level of abortion and euthanasia, but the political motivation here is transparent. As seen, they and their allies in the media make noise only when Republicans occupy the White House. In the 2000 election, to beat Texas governor Bush, church leftists tried the same trick but with capital punishment.

How does the Catholic Church stand “on rounding up immigrants and throwing them in cages?” I don’t know, bubble boy. How did the Church stand “on rounding up immigrants and throwing them in cages” when Obama was president?

As to meaningful remedies for the massive border breakdown under Biden, you offer none. Your best gambit is pure Karen—threaten the Andersons with “being whispered about behind [their] backs everywhere from church fundraisers to the Crown seats at the Royals game.” Yea, that’ll do it. See you next Thursday.

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