The Pope spoke of President Abraham Lincoln and referenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “Dream” speech and walk 50 years ago from Selma to Montogomery, Alabama.
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“There are many people, children especially of undocumented immigrants, who suffer from asthma and diseases that are caused by the climate and the environment that we live in”, he said. If Sophie had not been successful in Washington, D.C., Gutierrez said they would have tried in New York or Philadelphia.
Gutierrez said Sophie crafted her own letter to the pope and wasn’t prompted what to tell reporters who caught up with her later.
Though initially hesitant as security officials approached along the parade route, Sophie refused to the leave the pope’s side Wednesday until a bodyguard took a handwritten letter and a T-shirt.
Cruz’s parents likely are not considered a priority for immigration enforcement.
Reflecting on his tenure as a prosecutor and state Solicitor General, the far-right senator said, “I spent a number of years in law enforcement dealing with some of the worst criminals, child rapists and murderers, people who’ve committed unspeakable acts. I have the right to be happy”, she explained afterwards.
‘They work hard in the fields and the factories’.
“All immigrants just like my dad need this country”, she says. They deserve to live with dignity. Too many Americans just don’t view illegal immigrants as deserving equal respect to everyone else, and so they won’t grant them a pathway to citizenship.
According to the Washington Post, Pope Francis kissed her cheek and took her envelope, which included a letter about immigration and a drawing with some words in Spanish which translate as “My little friends and I love each other no matter our skin color”.
The young girl came all the way from California to see Francis, with a t-shirt and a letter. “She somehow in her mind, a 5-year-old just spontaneously jumped and decided to run to the pope”.
Sophie’s aunt Fidelia Jorge Hernández, said: ‘We feel great pride in seeing her representing thousands of immigrants’.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) commended Pope Francis for defending the sanctity of life, at every stage of development, during his remarks before Congress, but added that it struck him when the Pope made those remarks that most of the Democrats sat “stone-faced” and glared at the pontiff.
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“I was very excited to hear his address to Congress”, said Ruby Lee, President of the CLUES Latino help group (Communidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio).
