U.S. Religious Leaders Embrace Cause of Immigrant Children
“This is a crisis, and not simply a political crisis, but a moral one,” said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptists’ Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. On Tuesday, Mr. Moore led a delegation of Southern Baptist officials to visit refugee children at detention centers in San Antonio and McAllen, Tex. In an interview after the visit, Mr. Moore said that “the anger directed toward vulnerable children is deplorable and disgusting” and added, “The first thing is to make sure we understand these are not issues, these are persons — these children are made in the image of God, and we ought to respond to them with compassion, not with fear.”
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NewI can embrace everything
I can embrace everything quoted by Moore, but I do not think compassion has to equal amnesty.
Why is it that my voice always seems to be loudest when I am saying the dumbest things?
NewRight!!!
Why have borders at all!??? Why have citizenship at all?!!!
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NewI suspect
the main reason people were blocking busses is NOT BECAUSE THEY HATE THE KIDS…but because they have absolutely no faith that the government will do anything to address this situation. The Democrat party 1) wants votes and 2) they represent people who want cheap labor, and the Republicans think 1) they can get some of those votes too, and 2) they represent people who want cheap labor. All of this means that the border is open. They suspect these kids will be allowed to stay, then mom and dad is invited up, then abuela and all the cousins, etc…
If the situation in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador is really that bad, then the answer is not to encourage families to let kids travel half a continent. It is to work in those countries to make them livable.
NewThomas Sowell makes a cogent
Thomas Sowell makes a cogent point as well that allowing unlimited numbers of aliens to immigrate, even legally, puts our culture in danger. Overwhelming numbers of aliens will likely superimpose their culture on us rather than assimilating into our culture. In the end, they drag our culture in the same direction they took their own culture first, causing the same destruction here that they allowed to happen there. It’s a lose-lose proposition.
Why is it that my voice always seems to be loudest when I am saying the dumbest things?
NewChip, I think I have agreed
Chip, I think I have agreed with everything you said in the other thread about illegal immigration. This last point though I wonder about. Does the US really have an identifiable culture? Maybe we do I am not necessarily challenging it. It’s just that our country is so large and our people so diverse that it seems difficult to “nail down” what our culture is. That being said all cultures are not equal and it is entirely possible that a major influx of Hispanic culture (we already have that) could be damaging to our society.