immigration
The six non-negotiables of Catholic voting
Leo Brian Schafer Catholic Values Columnist After a long, grueling year-and-a-half, the current election season is finally drawing to a close. Soon it will be time, if you have not done so already, to cast your votes for the candidates you believe to be the best for the positions that are being contested. In some […]
Former US treasurer emphasizes problems of illegal immigration, need for solution
THERESA BALICK STAFF WRITER The former United States treasurer presented on the problems of and possible solutions to illegal immigration in her talk in the Gentile Gallery Monday night. Bay Buchanan, treasurer under Ronald Reagan, passionately explained to the dozens of students gathered to hear her speak that having open borders would destroy jobs for American citizens. “In […]
Heated debate rules president’s immigration policies fail Catholic values
VERONICA NOVOTNY STAFF WRITER Over 150 students and visitors crammed into the Gentile Gallery on the evening of Dec. 2 for an explosive debate on President Trump’s immigration policies, Catholic social teaching and open borders. The motion of the evening, “This House believes that Trump’s approach to immigration is not in line with Catholic values,” […]
Conservative Column: A nation of borders
JEREMIAH POFF CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST “We either have a country or we don’t; we either have borders or we don’t.” This was President Donald Trump’s rallying cry on the way to his historic election in 2016, and somehow it was controversial. This past week, a caravan of migrants from Central America stormed the U.S. border with […]
Conservative Column: Repeal of DACA good start
ELISHA VALLADARES-CORMIER SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER “If you’re going to do something, be sure to do it the right way.” Those are the words my mother has always told me, and they apply to pretty much anything, including immigration policy. During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump promised that he would reverse what he considered […]