Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up from the NRA.net studios in New York.

Standby for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition.

On this Wednesday, I am thinking about Pope Francis wrapping up a five-day trip visiting

the migrants trapped in the Mediterranean.

European countries don't want them, so thousands of poor Africans and Middle Easteners languish

intense on assorted islands around the sea.

The UN supplies life essentials, but it is a miserable existence, and the Pope's primary

purpose on earth is to mitigate as much human suffering as he can.

Quote from Francis.

I ask every man and woman all of us to overcome the paralysis of fear, the indifference that kills.

The cynical disregard that nonchalantly condemns to death, those on the fringes.

And the Pope is correct.

Most folks do not want to deal with poor people from far away places.

But there's another reality that the Pope does not want to confront.

The source countries for desperate migrants are mostly corrupt, dangerous places all over

the world.

Of course they want to leave.

Of course we should feel compassion for them.

But it's impossible for established countries to give these folks safe harbor.

Europe is essentially one giant cradle to grave entitlement content.

They can barely support their own people who's going to pay for the migrants.

In the USA we now have a $30 trillion debt on the books, and millions of foreign nationals

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