We Are All Immigrants

In her blog for the National Catholic Reporter website, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes gives an incredibly moving plea for our spiritual identification with immigrants from South America who are trying to make their way to a better and more fulfilling life in the United States. She sees them as the brother who can't swim crossing a dangerous river, a sister who is ill and facing a slow death-sentence, the workers exploited in cities by unscrupulous employers, the day laborers who are mocked and harassed, and all the other illegal émigré brothers and sisters. Estes challenges us to appreciation a soul connection with them and their struggles. She closes with: "We are not separate from one another nor from El Cristo, He, first and foremost, an immigrant without papers fleeing Egypt under cover of night, across all national boundaries set against He and His family."