Colkoch.....when you think about McElroys doctorate from Stanford in Political Science and I think an MA as well...along with all those other degrees....I read him as very connected with things political....AND with immigrants, and I seem to recall that at that recent USCCB meeting he tried hard (but not so successfully) to raise consciousness about these issues ......

My guess...and that's all it is....is that just as he had the first meaningful synod in his diocese ...his approach To deportation is apt to be pragmatic...and hands on...and his data was very specific relative to these folks.....he strikes me as serious "player".

Typically, relative to a political issue, the bishops fire off a few letters to appropriate congressional chairmen...which is their "mighty" intervention (unless it's pelvic)... 

Think McElroy is cut from a different bolt of cloth!