Posted on 05/21/2007 4:59:38 AM PDT by BigAlPro
The illegal alien situation in America just keeps getting worse by the day.
On May 1st of 2007, the Los Angeles sect of the nationwide march of illegals against America got ugly and the police had to step in to restore order. Once again, the authorities have been labeled as the bad guys and the criminals have been elevated to the status of victims. Since they received such sympathetic media coverage, these instigators are now planning another nationwide protest against America. If they want to protest, they should go home and march on their own soil.
Next, we learned that a terrorist cell, including three illegal aliens, was plotting to attack the U.S. Army base at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Their reconnaissance was complete and their plans were ready to be executed. All that remained was procuring the automatic weapons needed to carry out their murderous assault. Fortunately for the men, women and children on the base, the FBI prevented this jihad from taking place on American soil. So much for “The Bush administration is trying to scare Americans with false threats.”
Then we saw reports of foreign children, many of which are illegals, crossing the border into El Paso to attend American schools. Did you know that in Texas alone, the cost of educating illegal students is over $1 billion per year? When we add the cost of things like health care and law enforcement, we discover that illegal aliens are costing the American taxpayers over $3.7 billion per year just in Texas. It sounds like its time for a revolutionary-style tea party in the Rio Grande.
If all of this were not enough, Churches across America are now impeding federal authorities by offering sanctuary to illegal aliens. The United States has no protection clause granting churches the right to shield illegal aliens from the law. Thus, these church leaders are deliberately breaking the law in an attempt to force the government’s hand to change the national policy regarding illegal immigration.
These activist churches have clearly crossed the line that separates church from state. They have willingly stepped out of their religious-protected status and into the realm of the political lobby. They have chosen the path of anarchy and must be dealt with swiftly and accordingly.
The first thing the federal government must do is revoke the tax exempt status of these sanctuary churches. Next, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) needs to raid each of these church properties and apprehend every illegal alien present. Once background checks are completed on each of these international trespassers, they need to either be deported or jailed awaiting trial, if suspected of committing a serious crime. Finally, the feds need to arrest every member of the church involved with harboring these fugitives and charge them with obstruction of justice and any other associated crimes.
When did America give up its right to national sovereignty? Why do we allow illegal aliens to protest our government on our soil? When are we going to require proof of legal residency for all students? How long are we going to allow these sanctuary churches to thumb their noses at the U.S. Constitution and violate federal law?
Once again, I implore you to take a stand. Contact your elected officials and demand the full enforcement of our immigration laws. Send your e-mails and make your phone calls. Let the bureaucrats know that if they don’t do their job and solve this problem immediately, you will replace them with citizens who will truly be a government of the people, by the people and for the people of America.
Any church that harbors Illegals is no longer just a Church.
They must therefore lose their tax exemption.
Oh my. Don't too quick to make a call like that - it is a very slippery slope indeed.
The powers that be are already attacking churches for any reason at all with the intent of doing away with religion. No need to add ammo.
Also, churches are doing what churches do.
I don't like it, but thats just the way it is.
Subvert laws? Aid and abet criminal aliens?
But a church's mission is to help the poor and needy.
Give them food and water and call the authorities.
Nothing else is acceptable.
Oh yeah, silly me I thought that "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation" was the churches mission, and helping widows and orphans was a side deal.
“Sanctuary” has no legal standing in the U.S. Why officials allow this nonsense to continue is baffling.
You are correct sir - I forgot myself for a second - thanx for that much needed reminder.
Exactly what I clicked into this thread to say. Thanks.
If this is what they want to do, help the poor and needy, there are plenty of US Citizens that can use help and plenty of taxpayers that would appreciate these churches helping get the poor here off the dole. If the churches want to help Illegals, do it in their countries of origin, not here!
The churches should be raided just like a commercial building or apartment building harboring criminals should be. There is nothing in American law which says criminals can hide in churches to avoid punishment. If Bush cared a bit about the illegal immigration problem he’d have immigration agents raiding those churches tomorrow.
It’s simple enough—remove the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status for any church which harbors illegals.
That’ll stop that crap REAL fast.
A church that harbors anyone committing an illegal act......larceny, assault, rape, murder, grand theft.......where does a Priest, Pastor, Rabbi, Cleric draw the line once the gaol poat is moved?
But what would the Good news be to the poor and needy?
“I believe churches were heavily involved in illegally harboring runaway slaves during the abolition movement. Some churches tend to do things like this”
Helping “runaway” (read escaped) slaves and aiding and abetting criminals are two polar opposite situations..
The illegal aliens are not falsely imprisoned, forced to work as slaves at gun-point....
Nobody kidnapped the illegal aliens from their homes, forced them to walk for days through hostile jungles, keep them in cages on the hot beaches, chained them in tiny areas in the hot dark holds of sailing ships for months until they arrived at the shore of a country so different to their own, but the African slaves were...
If they survived all that torture, and rape if they were wowen, all the time not knowing what was hapening because of the lanuage barrier with their meriless captives, they were publically humiliated by being paraded often naked in a slave auction..
Whether the buyer valued his purchase as an expensive item, or mistreated the slave as less than a dog, the slave was still in bondage to a system that was run by the ancestors and precedents of the “sanctuary” churches and citys crowd...so important a system to the point that a war was fought to continue the enslaving of millions of the very people that Christian churches should have helped..
To ignore the fact that the churches actually sanctioned slavery is to rewrite history and aid and abet the illegal aliens in their anarchy..
The same liberal, Democrat mindset in the churches that demanded the continuation of slavery and later started the KKK, now demand that churches should harbor illegal aliens regardlass of their criminal circumstances...
Yes, there were individuals and churches that helped escaped slaves, but they were hardly “sanctuaries”...the church could be burned down, the pastor and his family and others killed or arrested, hardly the fate of the assessories to the criminal illegal aliens today...
A church that harbors anyone committing an illegal act......larceny, assault, rape, murder, grand theft.......where does a Priest, Pastor, Rabbi, Cleric draw the line once the gaol poat is moved?"
Listening to confession and counseling people regarding their sins is one thing. However, the laws of this country do not allow for the harboring of criminals by anyone in any category, including churches. These churches are harboring fugitives in order to make a political statement (i.e. LOBBY). In doing so, they are not only breaking the laws of this country, but they are violating the scriptures. It is not the law who is moving the goal post, rather these activist church leaders.
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