Sophie’s father, who has been working in the United States for 10 years, told MSN his daughter worries about losing her parents because she has seen families separated before. I live in Los Angeles, California in the heart of agriculture.
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“My dad works very hard in a factory galvanising pieces of metal”. They deserve to live with respect. The photo is captioned “My friends and I love each other, no matter the color of our skin”. We find ourselves in the thick of a presidential race, and there will likely be no firm stance on immigration reform until after the election. However, 5 year old Sophie Cruz was in tears with a yellow cloth and a memorandum when security personnel shielded her from entering the motorcade of Pope. Sophie told The Washington Post that she rarely sees her father because he works so many long hours. She added she lives in fear that he would be forced to leave their home and the country she’s grown up in.
He said: “The fathers and mothers of U.S.-born children live in complete uncertainty”.
When asked how she worked up the courage to approach the pope, the young girl had a simple and inspirational answer: “God made me like that”. She was at the pontiff’s parade in Washington D.C. Wednesday when she managed to get past the fences that held the crowds back.
This morning Pope Francis delivered a pressing message on dignity before an audience that needed to hear it: the United States Congress.
A member of his security team handed the pontiff the 5-month-old Loukas Chavez, the son of Salvadoran immigrants in Virginia. The same day he met Sophie Cruz, he spoke to the country’s bishops, praising them for their welcome of immigrants, “who continue to look to America, like so many others before them, in the hope of enjoying its blessings of freedom and prosperity”. In contrast to his more remote predecessor, Benedict XVI, Francis has dedicated much of his ecclesiastical capital to highlighting the plight of the poor and underrepresented around the world.
“Did you know she was going to do that?”
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Protesters were in short supply. She also tried to meet Pope when he visited White House to meet President Obama but was unsuccessful.
