By the way

I note that the group that was the audience for Archbishop Gomez's speech probably does not offer great opposition to immigration "reform" or immigration, legal or illegal. So why preach to the choir? Besides the Uhmerican Catholic version of the proposition nation, Archbishop emphasizes that the fiction of the Judeo-Christian tradition is its foundation:

And that vision is Jewish and Christian in origin. It is a vision that we find on the first page of the Bible and it continues through the Law of Moses and the writings of the prophets and it continues in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the writings of the first Christians.

America's "creed" is based on the biblical teaching that human life is sacred and has great dignity — because God made men and women in his own image. It gets expressed this way in the Declaration of Independence — that all men and women are created equal by God and endowed with God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

This Judeo-Christian creed has helped make America home to a flourishing diversity of cultures, religions and ways of life. As a result, we have always been a nation of nationalities. E pluribus unum. One people made from peoples of many nations, races, and creeds.

Are they persuaded by such appeals? There are a few orthodox pro-life rabbis who might do so, but I suspect for most Jews in positions of power or authority this is laughable. If we commit the sin of idolatry to a mere man, why would they want to be associated with Christianity or Christian teaching? (For the Jews who take their religion seriously.) As for those who are religious liberals, they are probably aware that Christianity had been opposed to liberalism for some time, and any recent and apparent capitulation to liberalism is a sign of weakness.