text: Just  this year, over 250 people have died trying to illegally cross the border.
  
  Many of them were Catholic.  Many of them believed your claims that everyone has a moral right to illegally enter the United States.
  
  Your encouragement of illegal immigration is an encouragement to human traffickers, and has led to the deaths of thousands of people.   This isn't hyperbole, it's just the plain truth.
  
  And stories like this one, a made-up tale about the U.S. having open borders until just this year, will contribute to more human trafficking, and more deaths.