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Going Bishop Wester's way
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It is nice to know there are still people in the background doing God's work while others sit and do nothing but complain and live in mortal fear about ... everything.
What you are advocating is more division between people and this no longer works in our world today.
I do not believe it is in the interest of the United States to allow itself to be the safety valve for a dysfunctional state. The first consideration in setting immigration law ought to be whether the level of immigration allowed benefits the U.S., with benefits to individual immigrants and other countries a secondary concern.
The U.S. takes in over a million immigrants each year. That is a huge number. Arguably, it is larger than is beneficial. The practical effect of most "comprehensive" immigration "reform" will be to increase this number. The half-hearted efforts at enforcing existing law, over the past decades, have gone well beyond merely avoiding injustice, all the way to almost total ineffectiveness.
What the Bishop is effectively saying is that even the present minimal efforts to enforce an extremely generous immigration law are "unjust." The only conclusion to be drawn is that what the Bishop really wants is for there to be no substantive restrictions on immigration at all.
The sooner people can come to grips with this fact the better off we will all be.
It is comforting to know true Christian ideals are alive and well in today's polarized society.
This should be an inspiration to all Christians and wake-up call that somebody is looking at the problem other than from a poisonous political view.
I'm quite sure that is exactly what the Native Americans' concern was when the white man kept moving in.
I guess the law of karma really does exist.
But most people only leave their homes and family because they have to. I'm sure our Decider president and his GOP will come to the rescue, work with Mexico (or maybe invade that country too to emancipate its citizens)
Laws, in-laws, out-laws, by-laws, whatever ...
in the end there are some people who know what the right thing to do is.
Last time I plowed my way through the Bible, I didn't see anything like "Thou Shalt Institute A Guest Worker Program" or "Thou Shalt Not Check People's Social Security Numbers Too Closely."
The Bible has a general mandate to deal justly with the "strangers" in our country, but religious open-borders advocates unpack a lot more specific policy content from that general principle than is justified by any stretch of the imagination. Render the details of immigration policy unto Caesar, whose job it is.
The next time I hear someone relish injury to America as "karma" for alleged past sins (with the implication that Americans have to sit back and accept what's coming to it), I'm going to ask my "dogma" to bite him.
You seem to think nobody cleaned hotels, sewed clothes, etc. before the 1970s, and that illegal immigrants merely stepped into an empty landscape of "jobs Americans won't do."
Not so. Americans did those jobs before illegals arrived in large numbers, and plenty of them are eager to do them once illegals leave (as was demonstrated when several meatpacking plants were raided recently; there was no shortage of applicants for the recently-vacated jobs).
The point is that importing a large class of low-skilled labor that unscrupulous employers are able to hire off the books (and thus free from regulatory mandates) lowers the tide beneath all boats, not just the jobs illegal immigrants directly enter. Because if Joe Sixpack's roofing job is filled by an illegal worker (at half Joe's cost), Joe has to go looking for work himself -- and if he gets one, he displaces the guy who would otherwise have gotten it if Joe were still up on the roof.
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