Sofie Cruz greeted the Pope yesterday as
he was visiting in DC and keep in mind
there were barricades that protected him
from the crowds but she managed to get
through those barricades just to talk to
him and give him a letter now the letter
urged him to do something about
immigration in the United States he
specifically wanted to talk a little bit
about the fact that her parents are both
illegal immigrants or undocumented
immigrants in the country and that
everyday she's afraid that her parents
are gonna be taken away from her now
according to the Guardian her parents
immigrated illegally to Los Angeles from
Oaxaca Mexico sophie was born in the
United States and she calls herself an
American citizen with Mexico roots she
says I want to tell you that my heart is
sad you know this is according to what
she wrote in her letter she also says I
would like you to ask you I would like
you to ask you to speak with the
president and the Congress in legalizing
my parents because every day I'm scared
that one day they will take them away
from me I believe I have the right to
live with my parents and I have the
right to be happy
so right so she's a super cute girl I so
I feel bad and being a little skeptical
about this right so skeptical how she
wrote she's a five-year-old and she
wrote that letter
her parents easily help Derek know I
know I know so let's just recognize that
there were adults in this equation no no
she did she took initiative okay she
taught herself how to read and write
before the age of five and then she
crafted this very well-put letter yeah
so it's that moment is lovely but a
little manufactured okay okay now having
said that this doesn't mean that it
doesn't pull your heartstrings anyway it
does for me at least because I'm a human
being and if imagine if you're a
five-year-old and you think at any
moment your parents can be taken away
from you that I mean I've got a
five-year-old and if you told him hey at
any point the government can come in
snatch up your mom take her away from
you and never see her again
you'd be like oh hey I mean that is
incredibly traffic traumatic idea for a
kid so I like
however the moment came up I like that
it happened and I liked it it's getting
attention yes and the Pope's on her side
yeah the Pope is on her side in fact
today yet he spoke to Congress as many
of you already know and while he was
speaking to Congress he did bring up the
issue of immigration now just a little
bit more from Sophie Cruz's letter she
says all immigrants just like my dad
helped feed this country they deserve to
live with dignity they deserve to live
with respect they deserve an immigration
reform now if you can think back to a
few years ago there was a comprehensive
immigration bill that was drafted by the
President President Obama and installed
in Congress okay the Republicans refused
to pass that legislation and it was a
very common-sense piece of legislation
that would do something about the 11
million people in the country that are
here illegally right but Republicans not
only made it stall in Congress they
refused to give any other option they
don't have a plan they don't have any
other options and so it's frustrating
for all the people out people in the
country who were born here but their
parents were born in a different country
now the Pope did speak to Congress and
he said the following each son or
daughter of a given country has a
mission a personal and social
responsibility your own responsibility
as members of Congress is to enable this
country by your legislative activity to
grow as a nation now as you guys also
probably know at this point members of
Congress cried some crocodile tears
right some Republicans did one person
was Marco Rubio although who knows his
cries might have been a little genuine
according to the Washington Post Rubio a
presidential candidate and son of Cuban
immigrants wiped away tears as the Pope
called himself the son of immigrants
he's so monumentally full of crap I I we
covered on the show Rubio with that
right there anyone crying what was he
quiet like it wasn't even a particularly
poignant moment it was a nice speech by
the Pope no question overall I loved the
speech that moment was a good you know a
couple of sentences about immigration
but it wasn't like oh my god he told the
story about his mom and if something oh
my or alone right no no and he knew the
camera was on him totally for scrap and
you know what Republicans think when
they see this uh Kuwait who are your
parents
were there papers let's go get him no
that's that's actually something that I
thought about because now she's in the
press people are talking about her and
I'm really worried that her parents are
gonna be investigated and they're
actually gonna be sent back as a result
of this political protest you know no no
I'm not kidding I guaranteed there are a
lot of conservatives in the country
including politicians who are like hey
oh they're undocumented what are you
doing here you shouldn't be here
you're an anchor baby that's put to by
the way that's literally what they call
people like Sophie is an anchor baby
right and now Trump says he's gonna kick
Sophie out too yeah even though she was
born here and could one of those guys go
and investigate who her parents are to
make sure that they were removed from
the country yeah yeah that could happen
Pope Francis also implored Congress to
reject a mind set of hostility and
embraced the immigrants who come to this
land to pursue their dream of building a
future in freedom I agree with you Jake
I love the Pope's speech I don't know
whether or not it's gonna resonate with
Republicans whatsoever probably I know
right no way but you look at I look I
don't know anything about Sophie's
parents other than the fact that they've
you know immigrated here from Oaxaca
wrote this letter for her and rose for
her but I don't know she doesn't strike
me as the child of rapists and criminals
yeah you know when you personalize it it
makes those comments seem so much uglier
it's one thing to say oh the people
coming across the board they're rapists
and criminals say you see that cute
little girl Sophie Cruz you'd think that
that her parents are rapists and
criminals then you're like oh well don't
say that right
yeah but they are real people and that
is what he's saying about real people
yeah okay I'm harping on it and I'm I
guess I'm being a dick about it but she
wrote they deserve to live with dignity
there isn't a five-year-old on the
planet who rose okay all right I just
want to be clear you're harping on the
most irrelevant partly no no just we
serve the truth right even though we're
on our side I'm just keeping it real