My name is the Rev. Nils de Jesús Hernández. I am pastor of Queen of Peace Catholic Church and director of Hispanic ministry in Waterloo, Iowa.
I want to address what has sadly become a central issue in this year’s political discussion: immigration.
It is perhaps a characteristic of human nature — and certainly a feature of human history — that when faced with challenging problems and commonfears societies identify scapegoats and then pretend that by eliminating those scapegoats we can magically solve our problems and allay our fears…