Mexico City, Mexico, Mar 29, 2017 / 08:01 am
The Archdiocese of Mexico said in a Sunday editorial that Mexican businessmen who would participate in the construction of a border wall with the United States are as traitors to their country.
In the March 26 editorial "Betrayal of the Homeland" in Desde la Fe, the archdiocese stated that "any business with intentions of investing in the wall of the fanatic Trump would be immoral, but above all, its shareholders and owners ought to be considered traitors to the homeland."
United States president Donald Trump had Jan. 25 ordered a wall to be built on the U.S.-Mexico border. An estimated 650 miles of the 1,900 mile-long U.S.-Mexico border have a wall constructed currently. The president has indicated his intention that Mexico will pay for the wall's construction.
The Mexico City archdiocese wrote that "as the months go by, the immigration policies of Donald Trump are coming up against reality. Demagoguery during the campaign was easy, but actions in practice, turn out to be difficult in face of notable opposition from civil society, churches, and activists, who are confronting an erratic government whose promises cannot be so easily implemented."
"Trump set aside $2 billion for construction of the wall, which must join together solid construction and a soft aesthetic appearance in order to hide, beneath the paint and the lights, hatred, suppression, and division," the editorial stated.
For the archdiocese, "what is deplorable is that on this side of the border there would be Mexicans ready to collaborate on a fanatical project which annihilates the good relationship and concord of two nations which share a common border."
"It's not just two or three but more than 500 companies that are looking for good profits. For them the end justifies the means," they criticized, and deplored "the timidity of the Mexican government's economic authorities, who have not stood up to these businessmen."
For the Archdiocese of Mexico, those who claim that building the wall is "an inalienable right" of the United States "are those same myopic people who fail to see that the wall is an outright threat which violates relations and social peace."
"Let us remember that in the name of ideology, nations and entire continents were divided, plunging millions into uncertainty. The only overriding voice was that of weapons, shooting, repression and the legal murder of anyone who dared to cross a border in search of freedom."
The editorial said that the Mexican businesses which join Trump's project will feed "all those forms of discrimination that throughout history have subjugated millions of human beings. In practice, joining a projecting which is a grave affront to dignity is to shoot yourself in the foot."
"The wall represents the predominance of a country that considers itself good, with the manifest destiny to overwhelm a nationality which it has considered to be perverted and corrupt: Mexico."