Little girl asks Pope to share her message

Like five million children living in the USA, Sofia fears that she could be separated from her parents due to their differing immigration statuses. I’m an American citizen of Mexican origin.

“I’m just afraid that the pope’s perspective seems to be that there should be no limits on the right of immigrants to come to the United States“, Krikorian said, adding that he was surprised that Pope Francis devoted almost four paragraphs to immigration and barely mentioned abortion. It reads “My little friends and me love without caring about the color of our skin”. “I believe the death penalty is a recognition of the preciousness of human life, that for the most egregious crimes, the ultimate punishment should apply”.

“So I wonder if he really knows all of the complexities of the US immigration system”, Guzzardi said. They deserve to be respected.

After breaking through, she was initially escorted back to her father – but Pope Francis intervened and called for her to be brought to him in the “Popemobile”.

“I want to tell you that my heart is sad”, Sophie told reporters, reciting from memory the letter she delivered to Pope Francis and had memorized in Spanish and English. On the campaign trail, Rubio often invokes his humble beginnings as the son of Cuban immigrants who achieved the American dream.

Getting Sophie to the pope didn’t come without a bit of planning.

After he planted a kiss on her cheek, Sophie, from South Gate, Carolina, handed over a letter pleading for his intervention in her family’s battle to stay in the US.

The same group orchestrated an equally successful effort in Rome past year with 10-year-old Jersey Vargas, who pleaded with Francis to urge President Barack Obama to free her immigrant father from a Louisiana detention center. In each case, the girl presents a handwritten note and a T-shirt to the pope or a bodyguard.

Pope Francis greets Sophie after she ran towards him during a parade in Washington D.C, United States on September 23, 2015. She is a wonderful child who looks to do good in her world. “I am grateful for his leadership on these central issues”, Cruz said.

“He was frail, but he still did the tour (around Downsview Park)”.

Protesters were in short supply.

Police wouldn’t intervene in a free-speech matter that had not escalated beyond the verbal stage.