Answers to immigration concerns found in imitation of Christ

This guest opinion by Fr. Jim Connell was published only in the print edition of the May 11, 2006 Catholic Herald. After a general review of Church teaching on social justice, he says

This raises a basic question facing the United States today in the matter of immigration law. Do 5 percent of the world's population have the right to control in excess of 20 percent of the world's goods?

What are pastors doing to apply these principles so that there is a more equal distribution among parishes? I mean, other than eliminating the poorer ones?