At a time when tens of thousands of migrants are massing on our border and demanding entry, the effort to soften our language is the political equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns. 

When politicians, media talking heads, and activists try to spread these and other myths, they need to be challenged vociferously on the facts.

We may have never had such a poisonous combination of partisanship and incompetence at the highest levels of government as we do today.

In respect to immigration it is time for everyone, including devout and charitable Catholics, to think realistically and in practical terms about the subject.