There is a huge difference between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. LEGAL immigrants pay taxes, learn our language, and contribute to the United States as a whole. I support legal immigration, and this article is not intended to speak against legal immigrants or legal immigration.
When Jesus was handed a coin with Ceasar's head on it, he said to "Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's, and render unto God what is God's." Jesus was telling us that we had to respect the authority of government officials, as well as render unto the government what belongs to the government.
We are to pay our taxes and respect the laws of this country. This is at the core of the debate over whether or not to allow illegal immigrants to stay and whether or not we should stop the flow of illegal immigrants over our border. This should be a non issue since it is against the laws of the United States to cross the border illegally.
However, there are some people, and some Christians who may be well meaning, but who have absolutely no idea how much damage they are causing by saying we should allow these people to stay.
First, there is the issue of the law.
If illegal immigrants will break the law to get into this country, what other laws will they break? What's worse, aren't we creating a double standard by saying that we will convict some people of certain crimes but not others? Lawbreakers, regardless of the crime, must be punished. This is the only way that we can keep order in this country and preserve our sovereignty. By doing nothing, we are saying that it is ok to enter this country illegally, and ultimately, to break the laws of this country.
Not only are we setting a bad precedent legally, but we are teaching our children that it is ok to break the law if what you think you are doing is ok.
There is also the issue of security.
9/11 should have taught us that there are those who seek to harm us and will stop at nothing to destroy us. By not controlling our borders, it is only a matter of time before a crisis far more serious than 9/11 will happen. All of the terrorists on 9/11 were illegal immigrants even though many immigrated here legally. When their visas expired, they should have been immediately escorted to the border. 9/11 would have never happened.
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— go to most recent comments1 - zingzing
it's not really a christian issue...
2 - doesn't matter
Look im not trying to go against what you have to say lady, but all i do have to say is this. I was bought over here by my parents when i was 7 months old illegally, i grew up speaking english and only enlgish. I was educated in America and taught American history thinking it was the history of where i am from. I got a diploma from a credited american high school, I take care of a CAUCASIAN women, whom if I had the proper documentation, I would marry in a heartbeat. I pay for my college education, yet again with no goverment asst. with money that I work for. I have son by this women who i love very much and i support with all my heart. Long story short, from what i and many others who know my story say, i am not a bad person, and rightfully deserve to be american. But because of convervative bigots such as yourself, i am stuck in a rut and cannot do anything for myself, but nonetheless, im sure i make more money than you do and ever will and i will be a happier person than you will ever get to be.
3 - Dave Nalle
Wow, I had never even considered that anyone might think Christianity was an issue here. Is there a particular audience this article was aimed at?
Dave
4 - Justin Berry
Doesnt matter, If you are in college and have been here since you were 7-months old, you obviously havent tried very hard to go straight and legitimize yourself. You are also not very knowledgable of the situation it is the President and his conservatives who are pushing for the bull#$%$ amnesty program by calling it a guest worker program. Whats next amnesty for any crime committed for economic reasons?
5 - stan
Riight...why don't you twist this some more so you make the religion theme more substantial. First they tried making it an issue of economics, then patriotism, then fairness, then security, then even race(unknowingly)...now you try religion. Pathetic.
fyi 9/11 was committed by people who were here LEGALLY on valid visas...not illegal immigrants.
and your logic is flawed..so they didn't pay taxes...u know why?, its because they don't have a ssn. So, the bill fixes this...makes them eligible for a ssn, makes them pay back taxes. You want someone to plant a tree, at least give them the tools to do so. Its sinister and truly NOT Christian when you demonize someone for that.
Everyone loves to blame everything, every problem the US is facing on the illegal immigrants. Go do a search...every book has been thrown at them. Weird thing is 90% of them are based on conjecture, opinion, who-said-what, biased and prejudiced material. You want something Christian?...Let him who is without sin cast the first stone!
6 - Arch Conservative
Nothing is funnier but at the same time more insulting than seeing ignorant, condescending atheists and other assorted miscreant, christophobes lecturing to everyone within earshot on the tenets of Christianity........... spouting off the one or two trite bliblical passgages that they know only because they have made their way into pop culture.
What most rabid abortion supporting, ACLU loving, secularist, Democrat voting popmpous assholes know about Christianity amounts to a steaming pile of dung.
7 - Ty
Who cares if it is "Christian" or not? Oh that, Bible Thumpers who pathetically live their life based on a book do.
Is this how low crazy Christians have sunk? And to think, we once thought the worst they could do was give seminars teaching people about all world religions (with a hidden agenda to show these people that all are "wrong" except Christianity)
8 - steam
i am confused...pls do not make this a religious issue because it is not. Please do not use the bible verses in vain to 'support' your cause. All we need(don't need) is more folks like you clouding the issue and trying to erect more propaganda. Shame on you for dragging religion into this.
9 - anonymous
Supporting Illegal Immigration Is NOT Christian
You got that right, Jesus would not reach out to the impoverished.
It's much more Christian to send them all back to a corrupt nation filled with poverty and let them fend for themselves.
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end sarcasm
10 - Jim Wynne
You lost me in the first paragraph. many illegal immigrants pay taxes, learn English and "contribute to the United States as a whole."
11 - Jim Wynne
Arch Conservative said,
Well, wish I could stay, but it's back to the quotemines for me.
12 - jess
I especially love how you compare apples to oranges and then conclude they are identical. If by that you mean they're fruits, congratulations.
13 - Richard Brodie
It's much more Christian to send them all back to a corrupt nation filled with poverty and let them fend for themselves.
Yeah, and thereby insure that the nation they are invading by the tens of millions, our nation, will be transformed into the same kind of a shithole they came from - resulting in NO nation left on the face of the earth worth living in.
14 - anonymous
so Richard, you're saying Christianity is about making sure our nation isn't a shithole. Okay.
15 - Arch Conservative
Supporting Illegal Immigration Is NOT Christian
You got that right, Jesus would not reach out to the impoverished.
It's much more Christian to send them all back to a corrupt nation filled with poverty and let them fend for themselves.
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end sarcasm
Yeah the Christian thing to do would be to let the m come intot he country, take advantage of our society and our native citizens in every possible way and then laugh about it right anonymous?
16 - anonymous
Yeah the Christian thing to do would be to let the m come intot he country, take advantage of our society and our native citizens in every possible way and then laugh about it right anonymous?
No. Why is that the only other option you propose?
17 - Arch Conservative
Being a chrisitan does not mean you can't be compassionate without allowing hordes of people to screw you over.
Oh it means this when you're a christophobe secualrist liberal piece of shit pretending to know something about what christianity really means in a patently pathetic attempt to use christianity against it's practicioners to make your own inane point. Ie anonymous, ty etc....
18 - anonymous
in a patently pathetic attempt to use christianity against it's practicioners
Arch Conservative, (the same one who equates Christianity with a steaming pile of dung), it wasn't anonymous who brought Christianity into the mix. And I'm not a secularist liberal.
19 - Arch Conservative
Does anyone here possess reading comprhension skills higher than those of a 2nd grader?
Go back and read what I wronte dumbass. Read it S---L---O---W---L---Y so that you understand it.
What I said ws that what you secularists morons know about Chrisitnaity amounts to a pile of dung..
Got it?
I didn't say christianity is a pile of dung...
nice to see your ged came in handy anonymous
20 - Richard Brodie
anonymous, you say that it is un-Christian "to send them all back to a corrupt nation filled with poverty and let them fend for themselves."
You also say, sarcastically, that "Jesus would not reach out to the impoverished" - impying that you think it would be Christian to reach out to the impoverished.
So just how far out do you want to reach? Would you agree that there are at least four billion people in this world who are more impoverished than those Mexicans who are in America illegally?
Tell us, please, why you think it would be a good idea to "reach out", and pro-actively arrange to bring all of these "impoverished people" into the United States.
21 - Arch Conservative
Can I make a suggestion to the editors?
Can you please instate a reading comprehension test to join BC so that the barely literates like anonymous and Jim Wynne are weeded out from the get-go?
22 - Jinger Jarrett
It should be obvious that the intended audience here is Christian.
However, whether you are Christian or not, you should still be concerned.
This became a Christian issue when the Presbyterian Church started helping illegals get legal IDs, as well as when the Catholic church came out in favor of giving full amnesty to illegals.
As for 9/11, you need to go back and research that one. Although these people entered the country legally, when they committed the 9/11 atrocity, they were illegal. They were on expired visas. This made them illegal.
I said LEGAL immigrants pay taxes. Illegal immigrants do not.
The bottom line is that those of you who disagreed with me offered absolutely no evidence to prove that I was wrong.
You can throw all of the emotion at this that you want. It won't change the facts.
The bottom line is this: for Christians to support lawbreakers is wrong. Period. There are Christians who are doing exactly that, and they are part of the problem in this country.
Only 11 percent of Christians read their bible on a daily basis. I'm one of them. I won't apologize for criticizing people who want to help criminals continue this criminal behavior because they are ignorant of what the Bible says. There's plenty of other scriptures I could have cited.
Jesus never shrunk from telling people when they were in sin. For nonbelievers to break the law only makes them criminals. For Christians to ignore the law not only makes us criminals, it makes us sinners.
On Memorial Day, make sure that you tell every veteran, or at least the ones who are still here, that you don't think they deserve to be treated for their service connected disabilities because you think that money is better spent on criminals. I'm sure they will thank you.
I'm not just a Christian. I'm also a military veteran and a woman. I am sick to death of those of you who want to sell us out because it's more politically correct than doing the right thing.
You are free to believe whatever you want, think whatever you want, and say whatever you want. Our constitution gives you that right, but remember, it is because of me, and those like me who have served, who have preserved that right to free speech that you have.
23 - anonymous
Tell us, please, why you think it would be a good idea to "reach out", and pro-actively arrange to bring all of these "impoverished people" into the United States.
I do not think it would be a good idea to bring all these people into the U.S. I never said that. The only options your side proposes is to send them back and let them fend for themselves or to let them take advantage.
They come here for jobs. Create the jobs there. Then they will go back on their own.
Arch Conservative: I didn't say christianity is a pile of dung...
How am I to know, you didn't dispute it when it was attributed to you. And you are calling me someone who is using Christianity as a political tool. Clearly that is the whole premise of this article.
24 - anonymous
for Christians to support lawbreakers is wrong. Period.
So hypothetically if Christianity is outlawed, then the Christian must deny the faith? You advocate the State above all.
25 - zingzing
oh bing, don't go there...
this isn't a christian issue. it has nothing to do with christianity. i don't think that anyone should really be speaking for christianity as a whole anyway. who are you? the pope?
i would hope that the pope would say offering charity to the poor is a christian thing to do. but at this point, because of the size of the problem, this has become a purely political problem, and is not going to be solved by charity.
charity is the christian thing to do. politics is not. so, no, it's not christian to support illegal immigration. it's not christian to actively try to stop illegal immigration either. christianity does not need to get involved at all.
using the bible to... illegal immigration... what does the bible... you know, this is so totally a non-issue.
it's like saying that using superglue is not christian. has absolutely nothing to do with it. whatever.