"Having just seen this come up again, I want to make clear to everyone - if you're for a closed border, than you're advocating for a policy that if it had been consistently implemented throughout history would have had the baby Jesus turned back at the Egyptian border to be murdered.
Yeah, I mean that. Because that is a patently obvious and truthful statement. Sometimes people need to break the law. Sometimes they have no choice but to flee, even if it is "illegal" for them to do so.
Mary and Joseph found themselves in that position when King Herod decreed - legally - that all boy children under two be brought to him to be put to death.
Mary and Joseph disobeyed that law. I think we all know what part of "illegal" they didn't understand, the part where to obey the law meant to violate their conscience and consign their baby - Jesus the Christ - to death.
They fled to Egypt. Fortunately there was no wall to stop them. No guard dogs, armed guards, drones, tanks or all the other sick things we have on our southern border.
Modern families often encounter similarly dangerous situations to that which Mary and Joseph suffered. Drug wars, actual wars, terrorism, gangs, weather disasters, they make life untenable and they need to flee or watch their families die.
Or maybe it's "just" a case of economic hardship and so they come for work so that their kids can have a chance. Like Mary and Joseph wanted their kid to have a chance.
When you tell such to "stay and fix your country", then you're telling Mary and Joseph to "stay and reform King Herod". Both make as little sense. Those who say it can't even reform their own comparatively freer nation, let alone those dictatorial war torn hell holes."
She goes on to make a compelling argument. Read it! Maybe you'll be tearing apart Trump's wall in no time!
But how do the Katies of this country intend to prevent terrorists and drug dealers from simply driving over our border to blow us up or sell us blow? Modern Israelis -- descendents of the Jews she speaks of -- were being blown to bits by Palestinian terrorists until they built a very secure wall...and the bombings stopped.
Walls do not PREVENT access, they CONTROL it. You have a front door, don't you? I assume you USE it, that it's not there "just for show".
We have embassies in foreign lands (including Mexico and Canada) to ensure that the oppressed may flee to U.S. for succor and credentials to emigrate from oppressors, if need be.
Do not confuse the BORDERLESS "boundaries" of Egypt and Israel with modern-day "states", complete with socialist welfare programs. Even the "America" of Emma Lazarus' day DIDN'T have an income tax! Or Social Security! Or welfare! Or Medicaid! Or practically ANY government-funded "benefits"! When the immigrants of that day beat a path to our shores, they came looking for a job, not a handout. (The job was the handout!)
You should visit the government job services / welfare offices here in Southern California. Not a white-skinned creature in the joint. Nary an English-speaker either. The "welfare" side is packed with hundreds of foreign-looking and foreign-sounding peasants. Every day.
The "jobs" side?
Like a library on SuperBowl Sunday.
Are you prepared to give these people a job? (No? Then how about your job?) Are you willing to provide them food to eat and a place to sleep in your house? (No? Then why not your bed?)
If not, then stop pawning them off onto the rest of U.S. to support so you can feel self-righteous about how "compassionate" you are toward Baby Jesus!
The Nephites (tentatively) welcomed erstwhile "enemy" Lamanites into Nephite-controlled lands, but ONLY AFTER taking a vote of the people (Did we get to vote?) and ONLY AFTER the would-be "refugees" swore off ALL hatred and violence toward the Nephites.
Do these immigrants (and children of immigrants) blowing up office buildings, night clubs, airports, parade routes, recruiting centers, and military bases while shouting "Allahu akbar!" ("God is the greatest!" in Arabic) pledge fidelity to Americans, rather than their destruction?
Does EVERY Muslim immigrant coming to America pledge "peace" today? Hardly! I know of MILLIONS who pledge America's overthrow and death to every Jew!
My first Muslim school yard acquaintance (when I was 14) told me he looked forward to the day when ALL Americans would become Muslim and people like me (Christians) would be converted or killed. I even asked him: "Would you kill even me?" He said he would...if I didn't convert!
We're not talking Baby Jesus here "Comin' to America". We're talking King Herod! Remember, it was the Arab Muslims who sided with the Nazis -- their philosophical "brethren" -- during WWII. The Nazis were defeated (and "re-educated"). As Ann Coulter has called for doing with Muslims, Americans invaded Nazi-held lands, killed their leaders and (re)converted them to Christianity.
THAT'S how we won the war.
The Muslim Arabs, however, remain a rabble, and unrepentant. They continue their murderous exploits -- and persecutions of Jews, Christians and other "infidels" -- today.
Do you lock your doors at night but demand we don't protect our own border?
If so, then you're a damned hypocrite. (And maybe even a soon-to-be dead one.)
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UPDATE: I'd like to add here I DON'T want to see a wall built along America's southernmost border. It would be an eyesore, an irrelevancy and a wasteful expense. A wall wouldn't secure America from the kind of terrorism and "social services rape" we're now experiencing anyway. It would just keep the poorest of the poor from trekking across the desert or swimming the Rio Grande.
If trans-border security (from drug dealers and would-be newborn Americans, gardeners and dishwashers) is what we want, we can "protect" against that by changing the law. Legalize recreational drugs (thus "drying up" the black market for them). Eliminate "anchor baby" status. (It's not constitutional, anyway.) And do away with all forms of government "freebies" for new immigrants.
If we did this in the "land of the free and home of the brave", we'd still have immigrant newborns, gardeners and dishwashers, we'd just be a lot freer and braver!
If trans-border security (from drug dealers and would-be newborn Americans, gardeners and dishwashers) is what we want, we can "protect" against that by changing the law. Legalize recreational drugs (thus "drying up" the black market for them). Eliminate "anchor baby" status. (It's not constitutional, anyway.) And do away with all forms of government "freebies" for new immigrants.
If we did this in the "land of the free and home of the brave", we'd still have immigrant newborns, gardeners and dishwashers, we'd just be a lot freer and braver!
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