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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI was working on a post about how seeking asylum is one example of legal immigration
I was doing it in the hopes that it might shame somebody who says "I love legal immigration" into waking up. And then my President said that throwing rocks would be met with deadly force. And I remembered that roughly a third of my countrymen support the idea of using violence to repel legal asylum seekers from our borders.
I am a Christian. As part of that, I believe that God, in person, is walking with those 7000 poor, hungry, and sick people. People who are fleeing a country that our country fomented a coup in. People who simply want to have a chance to sit beneath their vine and fig tree. These people are our future, and the judgment against our nation will be terrible if we surrender to evil here.
Every single asylum seeker deserves a hearing.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,699 posts)Thank you.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)You must regard the foreigner who lives with you as the native-born among you. You are to love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God."
Celerity
(43,499 posts)You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)
So glad I disabused myself of the ultimate woo that is religiosity and god folly.
allgood33
(1,584 posts)those seeking asylum are NOT illegal immigrants. The media does a very poor job of explaining this, the pundits they interviews among the Democrats do not push this point, no one seems to challenge the notion that these people are not "Illegal immigrants". They are not even "immigrants" yet. The GOP grabs the bully pulpit, chants untruths at rallies, and has indoctrinated their followers into repeating ignorant and hateful untruths.