"Spontaneous" encounter of pope and girl was staged by immigration group

[ShootSpeeders]

EVerything on TV is staged

Immigration group planned girl's pope encounter for a year

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sophie Cruz's encounter with the pope during a parade in Washington this week looked to be one of those spontaneous, once-in-a-lifetime-moments Francis has become known for.

But for 5-year-old Sophie, the chance to wrap her arm around the pope's neck as he offered a hug, kiss and a blessing unfolded as perfectly as it was scripted by members of a coalition of Los Angeles-based immigration rights groups. For nearly a year the group had been preparing the young girl from suburban Los Angeles to make a dash for the popemobile to deliver a message about the plight of immigrant parents living in the country illegally.

They had even pulled off a similar public-relations coup a year ago in Rome with a 10-year-old girl meeting the pope.

"We planned to do this from the moment we learned he was coming to the States," Juan Jose Gutierrez of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition told The Associated Press. "We have been working for a while now trying to sensitize the American public that dealing with immigration is not just dealing with the people who came in without proper documents but that we also have ... countless children whose parents are undocumented."

Gutierrez said the group decided to use the children of immigrants to represent their push for an immigration overhaul to the pope, a staunch supporter of migrants. "We have been looking for children to make the case that we as adults have been making for years," he said.

 

[Votto]

Does this surprise anyone?

 

[Muhammed]

The pope should be denied entry into the USA. He should be thrown in a cell in handcuffs and deported.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I hope Trump deports this Pope and Boehner in the first round

 

[ShootSpeeders]

The pope should be denied entry into the USA. He should be thrown in a cell in handcuffs and deported.

Fran is a crook all right. I guarantee his corporate buds pay him millions of dollars to support the illegal aliens.

 

[aris2chat]

highly disappointed
think the pope visit was 1000% over blown. A few minutes of local news, the address to congress and maybe on a couple of channels, the sunday service. The rest had no business on the news or interrupting TV schedules.

President from china, the most populated country and owner of much of the state debt had nowhere near the same attention as the smallest state in the world. WTF?

 

[ShootSpeeders]

highly disappointed
think the pope visit was 1000% over blown. A few minutes of local news, the address to congress and maybe on a couple of channels, the sunday service. The rest had no business on the news or interrupting TV schedules.

President from china, the most populated country and owner of much of the state debt had nowhere near the same attention as the smallest state in the world. WTF?

Amen to that. If the pope had been conservative, the networks would have ignored him.

 

[Blackrook]

"What did the Pope know, and when did he know it?"

 

[ScienceRocks]

This is what Jesus would do. He'd help everyone no matter what.