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A Catholic Lawyer Responds to the Bishops About Mass Immigration, by Kevin Kijewski – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

A Catholic Lawyer Responds to the Bishops About Mass Immigration, by Kevin Kijewski

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By Kevin Kijewski, Crisis Magazine, June 12, 2025

Kevin Kijewski is an attorney in Birmingham, Michigan and is seeking the Republican nomination for Michigan Attorney General. He also is the former superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Detroit and the Archdiocese of Denver. Among his degrees, he earned his Doctor of Law from Michigan State University and his Master of Education from the University of Notre Dame.

 

Catholic Bishops too often exploit the emotional aspects of poverty and hunger in order to change the subject from the massive problems associated with mass immigration.

Although even Pope Leo XIV acknowledges that mass immigration is a “huge problem,“ a recent “Pastoral Note to Migrants” issued by Michigan’s Catholic bishops is an embarrassing combination of fallacy, contradiction, doctrinal subversion, begged questions, conflict of interest, and hypocrisy.

To start, the letter from the bishops ignores the elephant in the room: the violation of immigration law is a crime. Since the bishops subsequently claim that “The Catholic Church affirms the rule of law….” they must prove that current immigration law is unjust if they seek to continue supporting mass immigration in violation of the law.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 2241 lays out the proper disposition of immigrants to their new country and the right of a receiving country to determine the conditions for entry.  ….