Longenecker's ignorance about building a wall and the right for national security is breathtaking.

He quotes from the catechism - "second duty is to secure one’s border and enforce the law for the sake of the common good."   (note - the catechism is not the final word.....this only reveals another *shallow* understanding of catholic social justice principles.  Not every principle is equal.)

Security of the border - he quotes from the 2013 USCCB document (which has been criticized for being too vague about immigrants' rights, etc. but at least he focuses on his two favorite:
- increasing lawful entry (but he never mentions the pending immigration reform bill that goes back to Bush - why not?)
 - "Surely a wall–in and of itself–is not necessarily racist, ugly and exclusive."  Really??  Guess he has never visited Israel; has no historical sense of apartheid measures in South Africa; and given US and Canadian border history - why would a pastor say this.  It is ugly and exclusive.