text: This drastic situation is not without its parallels in our own Catholic cultural crisis.  On one side, both mentally and ideologically, we have the law & order folk, with their multi-books of statutes declaring all that is legal and illegal, all the just punishments for infractions.  They have the rights, the history, the might, and absolutely the self-righteousness fueling their compulsion to enforce all law, no matter what the human -- and in immigration enforcement--taxpayer cost.  
  
  I'm sure without my typing it out in tedious detail, we each know the "other side:”  Yes, maybe continued deportations of convicted criminals, especially gang-related, but also a reasonable course of amnesty-toward-citizenship after thorough background checks, the intentional preservation of families, the ultimate value of then-legal immigrants who can bring all their own richness to our common life and homogenization of our mutual culture. 
  
  On which "side" would the weight of the Gospel fall?