What has Pope Benedict XVI said about the rights of immigrants?

Pope Benedict, following his predecessor John Paul II, has issued an annual statement on the condition of migrants on World Migrants Day. In his latest statement, issued on September 27th 2010, Benedict states:

“Dear brothers and sisters, the world of migrants is vast and diversified. It knows wonderful and promising experiences, as well as, unfortunately, so many others that are tragic and unworthy of the human being and of societies that claim to be civil. For the Church this reality constitutes an eloquent sign of our times which further highlights humanity’s vocation to form one family, and, at the same time, the difficulties which, instead of uniting it, divide it and tear it apart. Let us not lose hope and let us together pray God, the Father of all, to help us – each in the first person – to be men and women capable of brotherly relationships and, at the social, political and institutional levels, so that understanding and reciprocal esteem among peoples and cultures may increase.”

For more information about Pope Benedict’s statements on immigration, you can read them in their entirety here:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/migration/index_...