Posted on 02/17/2015 2:33:12 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The presentations at two Orange County church meetings were similar. The crowds were not.
One was predominantly Anglo. The other was Latino.
Both focused on President Obama’s upcoming immigration plan and what church members could do to help 100,000 eligible undocumented immigrants across the county apply for deportation relief.
The first application opening is days away. Local churches and other organizations are busily working to organize forums and training sessions. They’re looking for volunteers. They aim to help eligible immigrants apply for temporary reprieves from deportation that come with work permits.
Such sessions are happening nationwide.
A federal judge in Texas, meanwhile, is expected to deliver a ruling in a case that pits about half of the nation against the president. More than two dozen states sued Obama, saying he unilaterally –and unlawfully–rewrote immigration law.
A calling or 'unholy alliance'?
“I’m here to help myself and to help others,” said Nelva Resendiz, a Costa Mesa mother of three who hopes to qualify for the president’s three-year deferment from deportation plan for parents of U.S.-born children.
Resendiz was one of some 35 residents who attended an informational forum and training at the Crossing Church in Costa Mesa last Tuesday night.
A couple of days earlier, more than 40 church members from the Tapestry Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Mission Viejo and Irvine United Congregational Church gathered for lunch to learn more about the president’s plan at the Irvine church.
“Our prayers were answered. Now we have to respond,” Minerva Gomez, of the Orange County Congregation Community Organizations, told the assembled church members....
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
The churches can help them make it safely back to their home countries!
They’re praying to their god (the U.S. govt) for more money.
Methinks it’s time to start yanking some tax exemptions.
Send them home where all they have learned in the US can be put to good use in uplifting their home economies and political and educational systems.
There, they can become leaders in establishing businesses, building trade with the US, and seeing that a culture of education and development is fostered.
A look at every ‘dreamer’ sent home as a gift to his or her home country.
Immigrants ———> YES [ which is to say: si ]
Illegal =========> NO { which is to say: NO NO ]
Give them a one-way ticket to their home country.
Send them back. We owe them nothing.
‘Churches ask: What can we do to help undocumented immigrants?”
Give them a one way ticket back. It’s time that churchgoers stop funding churches that continue to circumvent the laws of the US.
Churches can help poor people in their home countries. They can send food, education, construction project assistance, etc. They can teach people to improve the country they are in, by teaching the value of freedom and independent initiative, and by reaching the rich, corrupt leader class of those countries and changing their hearts.
Mexico, for example, has resources other countries can only dream about (coastlines on two oceans, gold, silver, copper, oil, chocolate, vanilla, agriculture...). Yet a few corrupt, monopolistic people hold the others back, and the middle class supports the notion that some people are ok to throw away. They don’t do “liberty and justice for all”. When Christians help the least among them to be better Mexicans, we are doing our job. Otherwise, the people coming over are in an inherently undignified position— sneaking in the back door, disdained by the country they left, except for the money they send back. Real Christian churches will help them “bloom where they are planted.”
The Church pretends these are poor refugees in need of our charity.
In fact they are thieves, robbing Americans of employment, a decent wage, our tax dollars, dependence on government, and ultimately diluting our votes and undermining our freedoms.
They are pawns intended to ensure power for liberals.
And the church can’t see past the promise of full pews on Sunday.
I thought there was supposed to be a separation of church and state. If the church is helping illegal immigrants become legal by helping Obama then the churches are helping the state. The liberals tell us that’s against the constitution. I haven’t found it in there yet but sometimes I just have to take their word for it.
Amen brother.
You can Western Union $50 for $5 anywhere in the USA,
but you can send $1000 to Mexico for $8
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Help them go home?
One way tickets back home?
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