take away their tax exempt status and see how long it lasts
Posted on 12/06/2016 6:53:41 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
The rhetoric on immigration during the presidential campaign season has struck fear into the hearts of many foreign-born families, and a new network of Minnesota churches is mobilizing to respond.
The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer on St. Paul’s Dale Street already maintains 22 shelter beds for the homeless in its basement, where families with no other place to go often spend the night on a temporary basis. The Rev. James Erlandson said those beds may soon serve a different purpose: offering sanctuary to those facing deportation.
“That’s a moral stand that we’ve taken,” Erlandson said. “We want to say: ‘Don’t increase deportations.’ Let’s fix our immigration system, and offer a path to citizenship so our neighbors don’t live in fear.”
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So we can pick and choose which laws we are going to obey?
Awesome!
Oh wait - I’m white.
The law still applies to me. :(
cop just been killed in the county near me in FL named Nassau County.
Killed by an illegal immigrant who had been deported twice already.
How about liberals defend these illegals to the family of this slain officer.
The Minnesota churches that brought us the Somali terrorists.
There already is a path to citizenship. They chose not to follow it.
Looks like they are going to house, clothe and feed them in the churches.
They just thought that the phrase “underground railroad” sounded sexy.
Bravo!
Absolutely.
I suggest an “Underground Trebuchet.”
This is not an underground railroad. The underground railroad was there to move runaway slaves to Canada. Not to escape legal deportation.
http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-1/36-aliens.html
Sooner or later the feds will find them in the church vastly outnumbering the 12 to 14 beds available, and rather than give them up, the church will be charged at some point with harboring federal criminals and health violations to close the church down. A cross doesn’t over rule federal law.
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These churches are setting a very bad example.
The government needs to have good relations with churches, and the other way around as well.
Churches want and should have tax exemption. The government doesn’t want to come down on churches at all. Here the churches demand it.
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. Another-words, respect legitimate government actions.
Nations have a right to determine their immigration policies. Otherwise any old Obama could move in and terrorize at will.
The pastors of these churches are committing a crime. They should be used as an example of what happens when pastors break the law.
I have no sympathy whatsoever for these pastors.
Have at it Justice Department.
Take away their tax status.
Yep.
take away their tax exempt status and see how long it lasts
Which are the other 12 churches?
Hiding....
Nope. The original ‘underground railway’ often ended in Canada. Give Mayheeko her fair share this time.
Yeah, why don’t these churches help them get a start in Mexico or canada?
If they want to start playing politics, tax the hell out of them.
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