Why does Mahony support illegal immigrants?

"So, why does a figure like Cardinal Mahoney support amnesty? Because he’s a powerful man who moves in powerful circles. He can look out across the Los Angeles Basin and pity the poor immigrant, but the bulk of his flock - working class, English-speaking Americans named Smith and Jones - are transparent to him. He has enormous empathy for the Mexican illegal in need of a job, but is completely inattentive to the man whose job is taken by that illegal. It’s the same way with nearly everyone pushing amnesty. If Mexican members of the professional classes were swarming the borders and taking university professorships, legal clients, boardroom promotions and physician referrals away from the well-to-do in this country, the border would snap shut like a crocodile’s jaw at feeding time. But the American professional class isn’t threatened. To many of them, rather, illegal immigration represents an opportunity: cheap labor and even cheaper moral gratification.

The irony for Catholics is that at one time the Church was the backbone of the American working class, and Catholics were the iron core of the labor movement. Now, American Catholic workers not only see their jobs being exported to Mexico, the Phillipines and Korea, but they must suffer the indignity of their own bishops encouraging illegal immigrants to cross the border and take what few jobs still remain. I don’t think the bishops are craven. I just think that their position in this debate is another manifestation of an episcopacy that is detached, worldly, and focused more on the wealthy than on average Americans."
--Mark Gordon, "Illegal Immigration and Class", Suicide of the West blog

Yes, how nice that the Church hierarchy is protraying the needs and concerns of working class Catholics in this country. Jesus would be so proud of them!