Maybe not completely, but the immigration laws are wrong. If you're not a convicted criminal or enemy combatant and you're willing to submit to the legit laws (I do hold a law that contradicts kindness and welcoming the stranger to be immoral) of the country you are in, you should be welcome.
I'm also STRONGLY against building a wall down the border. Stupid idea. Just as likely to keep us in as them out.
If you feel a law is not legit, you MUST still obey it and work within the system to change it. File suit, run for office, etc. It is NOT for you or anyone else to simply disregard it, ignore it, give shelter to those who have ignored it or PANDER to those who have ignored it.Yeah, but all "law" is not legit. https://www.bible.com/bible/1/GAL.5.22-23.KJV "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." Acts 5:29 "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."
http://www.portagepub.com/products/caa/sr-lexrex17.html
Confused by your statement. You can disagree with policy and suggest that immigration law needs to be reformed to make it easier more efficient for decent hard working folks to get into the nation legally.
They are all out there in broad daylight.What lies and flip-flops?
I think it's a matter of priorities. I know a good immigration lawyer. There are times when the US Government rejects people for various petty reasons and sometimes they have VERY legitimate reasons to fear going back to their old home - crime, gangs, real death threats, family, etc. Their choices and life circumstances may make "breaking the law" the lesser of two evils in a very real sense. Those kind of people deserve better treatment. If someone's smuggling drugs, human trafficking, etc... throw them out, of course. Just working and trying to make a living? Let them find a path to stay. That's going to resonate with their legal relatives here in the States who are legally voting.If you feel a law is not legit, you MUST still obey it and work within the system to change it. File suit, run for office, etc. It is NOT for you or anyone else to simply disregard it, ignore it, give shelter to those who have ignored it or PANDER to those who have ignored it.
I think it's a matter of priorities. I know a good immigration lawyer. There are times when the US Government rejects people for various petty reasons and sometimes they have VERY legitimate reasons to fear going back to their old home - crime, gangs, real death threats, family, etc. Their choices and life circumstances may make "breaking the law" the lesser of two evils in a very real sense. Those kind of people deserve better treatment.
Just working and trying to make a living? Let them find a path to stay. That's going to resonate with their legal relatives here in the States who are legally voting.
One can legitimately disagree with the US Federal government's position... and I certainly do as a Christian who votes... my first allegiance is to God, and if the state's laws contradict Scripture, I feel no desire to back the policy we have towards otherwise-peaceful neighbors from north or south or overseas.
https://www.openbible.info/topics/welcoming_strangers
And just because someone from these shithole countries SAYS they are being abused, etc., we should automatically believe them?? Damn, you can't be that gullible.
I still think the race is Cruz's to lose.
I have received a few random texts from supposed Beto campaign workers asking who I will vote for. I don't respond but I have wanted to tell them i don't vote Red.
Well, some of y'all seem heartless. I'd rather be gullible than heartless.And just because someone from these shithole countries SAYS they are being abused, etc., we should automatically believe them?? Damn, you can't be that gullible.
The first priority is to help them in the ways they need help (probably physically, spiritually, mentally) then show them that the right thing to do is to go through the legal process - and there NEEDS to be a legal process that's not stupid for normal people who just want to work.
The day the U.S. fully opens its borders will be the day the U.S. ceases to exist. No nation can survive unlimited immigration.