Never? Even Indirectly?

From TFP*:

Finally, the third thing that must be done to end the Dreamer nightmare is never to reward those who break the law either directly or indirectly. Respect for the law is one of the foundations of a civilized political order. When the rule of law is disregarded, as in the case of parents who enter illegally with their children, it is a matter that affects the common good. Children are taught no good lessons when they see the illegal acts of their parents rewarded with benefits.

My emphasis.

While respect for the law is indeed one of the foundations of a good political order, so is the realisation that the law of the land is subject to the law of God.

So is the realisation that some situations do require breaking and reward breaking the law of the land.

So is the realisation that abstaining from a punishment and rewarding even a misjudgement on that matter are two things.

It seems, Arizona is trying to make it law of the land to not help illegal immigrants even survive. This is against the law of God.

Si non pasti, occidisti.

A Mexican trying to cross the border is not Osama Bin Laden. Even helping Osama survive (for those who did so, until he was killed) is not like being a terrorist.

So, between an Arizona sheriff and a jailed person charged with helping immigrants survive, nota bene, not arrive, but survive while trying to, it is ludicrous to pretend that "respect of the law" is a good requiring respect for a sheriff spilling out water on sand or disrespect for Scott Daniel Warren** for "breaking the law". The corporeal acts of mercy do not break the law of God.

There is another paragraph or sentence to adress in Horvath's* plan.

First, as in all legal matters, minors must be represented by their lawful parents or legal guardians, not put on a separate path. DACA encourages the separation of the teenager from their illegal parents. It necessarily breaks up families, by giving a deferment to one but not the other.

I read in the French youth mag Phosphore about one Ulises. He is born in US, but to parents illegally here. He is worried his father will be deported to Spain and his mother to Ecuador, their lands of origin.

If such a deportation takes place, this type of ending of DACA is also breaking up families.

Of course, a joint deportation could take place either to Spain or to Ecuador - and in either land the still united family would involve two of three persons being strangers in it.

One thing which could be done, is reforming expulsion, so it is not automatically to land of origin.

If I am wrong on what the legislation is, if a solution is already foreseen which is not totally wicked, supposing the parents are either married or could marry, well, so are many others. And even so, Ulises would either loose his parents or be expulsed (if that is the case) from the land where he was born.

Keeping a family together is one of the valid reasons for breaking the law of the land to keep the law of God. Requiring this to be "not rewarded" in a sense that it should be punished, is wicked. If ten people came illegally one after another from Mexico and all lived together in Mexico and all now live together in US, requiring them to leave US and offering them to go back to where they came from in Mexico as first option is obviously not monstruous.

But some doings are. There is a Prussian respect for the law, which comes close to the Prussian respect for authorities, from which we have the Prussian comedy of the Captain of Köpenick. When a rule not according to God's law is mistaken for law of the land, the results can be less comic, than in Köpenick.

In Austria, under Dollfuss and Schuschnigg, many Czechs were being deported to Czechoslovakia as a certain country was then called, now it is Czechia, one country, and Slovakia, another one. But they were arriving as industrial workers, putting German-Austrians (that is Austrian nationals) out of work, in industries, and on top of that they were propagating Communism. But what is more, they were assembled and deported back with very short notice. You have no case of a Czech and a Serbian couple being separated or even menaced with it after having children in Austria. I have not checked, but in my heart I know. You also have no Sonora Desert between Vienna and Prague, and I am also very sure someone giving warm shelter to an illegally residing Czech in winter was not punished for that act. Dollfuss and Schuschnigg were Catholics, and Father Ignaz Seipel SJ who had been father confessor of them in a previous government was the one writing Wirtschaftsethische Lehre der Kirchenväter which quoted for instance St Ambrose. I would be shocked if any Austrian went to prison simply for giving hot soup to a Czech in winter. In 1934-38. After 38, as we know, Austria went under the power of one who admired Prussia.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Blasius***
3.II.2018

PS, "after 38", I meant obviously during 38 and after, up to 45./HGL

PPS, it seems the mail server for my email in Europe, located in Germany, is on the SBL blocklist. If several US residents, including TFP, have spam marked my emails, this can by automatation have become a block for others trying to reach TFP from a mail dot com adress in Europe./HGL

* TFP : Three Ways to Stop the DACA Nightmare
January 30, 2018 | John Horvat II
http://www.tfp.org/three-ways-stop-daca-nightmare/

**Border Patrol Thinks Dead Mexicans Are Hilarious
The Young Turks | 24.I.2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGrfC5wjh1o

Linking to:

The Guardian : Group accusing US border patrol of water sabotage sees member arrested
Associated Press | Mon 22 Jan 2018 23.31 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/22/arrest-no-more-deaths-border-patrol-water-sabotage-migrants

*** Sebaste, in Armenia, passio sancti Blasii, Episcopi et Martyris; qui, multorum patrator miraculorum, sub Agricolao Praeside, post diutinam caesionem, atque in ligno suspensionem, ubi ferreis pectinibus carnes ejus diruptae sunt, post teterrimum carcerem et in lacum demersionem, unde salvus exivit, tandem, jubente eodem Judice, una cum duobus pueris, capite truncatur. Ante ipsum vero septem mulieres, quae guttas sanguinis, ex ejusdem Martyris corpore defluentes, dum torqueretur, colligebant, propterea, deprehensae quod essent Christianae, omnes, post dira tormenta, gladio percussae sunt.