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America’s People-Shortage vs. ICE Deportation ManiaBy Matthew Fox 9/8/2025 |
There has been such an onslaught of bad news and immoral behavior from the current administration and covering such a range of subjects that it is hard to go deeply into any one of them. This relentless dumping of bad deeds has been a conscious strategy on the part of the MAGA government. One of
the topics not discussed enough has to do with the ICE deportations, setting up of concentration camps, and giving $45 billion in the new budget to expand ICE’s goals. The majority of the people rounded up in the US (60%) have absolutely no criminal record whatsoever. |
Let us take into account what one writer has called “America’s great people shortage” resulting from the US birth rate continuing to diminish. “Colleges, companies, and cities are scrambling to bridge the gap,” and the “US Economy will get walloped by” population decrease, writes Kelli |
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Maria Korducki in Business Insider.* “America is about to tumble off the edge of a massive demographic cliff,” she warns. The US birth rate peaked in 2007 at 4.3 million babies born that year. It has dropped every year since. By 2024 the rate was down to 3.6 million. The 2007
babies are now turning 18 and are ready to start college or enter the workforce, but “the whole of America’s economy” is going to feel the reality of plunging birth rates. “Every year from here on out—at least for the foreseeable future—colleges will face” a smaller pool of prospective students. Companies will too when it comes to potential workers. Many colleges will close. |
Baltimore Catholics Stand with Undocumented Families as ICE Raid Threats Loom. Video by WJZ-TV, Baltimore. | Worker shortages are already rising in health and agriculture. A deficit of 6 million workers will face us in 2032. This means fewer people paying into Social Security at the same time the number of retirees increases. So this affects everyone. Population decline is not
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American problem alone, especially in high-income countries. But even in India and other lower income societies, the trend is underway. Japan and South Korea are far worse off than the US. Here is where I want to insert the reality of a price we are paying for increased rounding-up and deporting of immigrants. We
can argue the immorality of these roundups, and it is true that many people who have immigrated to America have done so to escape persecution, climate change, and joblessness at home. But what is common to many immigrants—and this is not being taken into account enough—is that they are young and of child-bearing age. Not only do they do jobs
in America that others don’t want to do, such as agricultural jobs and jobs in service industries, but also they can bolster the national birth rate. |
Yet our government is madly rounding them up and deporting them at record rates, and putting billions of dollars into detention facilities preparing to deport them. One gift they bring to America—among many gifts—is their willingness to bring more children into the world. |
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Wouldn’t that be a win-win for everyone? Are Americans shooting ourselves in the foot by deporting these people who have had the gumption and the grit to find their way to America? While welcoming them in a legal and organized fashion is to everyone’s benefit? There is a price to pay for racism
and scapegoating and denying hospitality. There is much to be gained by welcoming an essentially younger population. Everyone will benefit—from older Americans on Social Security to younger and newer citizens who can fulfill their dreams in a new land. Like so many immigrants of old did. |
* Kelli Maria Korducki, “America’s Great People Shortage,” Business Insider, August 21, 2025. See Matthew Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the World. And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality. And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ. And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society. And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion. And Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a
New Generation. Banner Image: Protesting ICE and deportation raids in Chicago, 2019. Photo by Charles Edward Miller. Wikimedia Commons. |
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Queries for Contemplation Do you see the arrival of new and younger
immigrants to America as a plus for the country as well as for them? If so, isn’t it time that we beefed up the judicial process at the border so that it was more efficient at weeding out bad players but also welcoming the new ones eager to raise families in the US? |
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South
American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality
and Practice.
“I am reading Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth by Matt Fox. He is one that fills my heart and mind for new life in spite of so much that is violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang. |
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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in
Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may
have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story |
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Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to
spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a moment, for examining the archetype of the Antichrist, it is now…Read this book with an open mind. Good and evil
are real forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling
author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics |
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A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew
Fox delivers a profound exploration of the meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate activity.
“Well worth our
deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register |
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Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation
Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to use our talents in service of compassion and justice and to
move beyond our broken systems–economic, political, educational, and religious–discovering a spirituality that not only helps us to get along, but also encourages us to reevaluate our traditions, transforming them and in the process building a more sacred and just world. Incorporating the words of young activist leaders culled from interviews and surveys, the book provides a framework that is deliberately interfaith and speaks to our profound yearning for a life with spiritual purpose and for a
better world.
“Occupy Spirituality is a powerful, inspiring, and vital call to embodied awareness and enlightened actions.”
~~ Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist and author of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods |
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UPCOMING EVENTS See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book, Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual, Prophetic Spirituality, in an online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat. Thursday, September 18, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox as he discusses his book, Meditations with Meister Eckhart in an online Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat. Thursday, October 16, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT. Register HERE. Join spiritual pioneers Dr. Matthew Fox and Rev. Cameron Trimble for “In Search of a New Story: Reimagining What Comes Next,” a timely and transformative 4-part series featuring conversations with some of the most compelling wisdom voices of our time: Carolyn Myss, Diana Butler Bass,
Luther Smith, and Ilia Delio. Thursdays, October 23, 30, and November 13, 20, 4:00pm-5:30pm PT Register HERE. |
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In this 6-month immersion program with Matthew, you’ll explore what it means to be a modern mystic and prophet, integrating this sacred knowledge into your life through the authentic teachings of Jesus and other wisdom keepers. This journey births what Matthew calls Christianity 2.0 — based not on dogma, but on a spirituality that recovers the sacred sense of original goodness. By Application only - apply HERERegister for a free information session HERE |
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MONTHLY: Join Matthew Fox and Skylar Wilson of the Order of the Sacred Earth in a free virtual meeting for connection and networking with other mystic warriors. Last Tuesday of every month, 4:00-5:00pm PT.
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Creation Spirituality Conversations |
Matthew Fox and Fr. Bede Griffiths each lecture for approximately 30 minutes followed by 30 minutes of dialogue. 91 minutes. 1990. You will receive a secure link to the file to download. |
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