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I find that most Christians are unable to Biblically defend a nation state at all. I was in seminary a few years back and would often pose our modern dilemmas regarding immigration and borders to both students and professors and the answers and results weren’t good.

I would often show people Acts 17:26 - just to show people that borders and countries are okay with God and in fact a part of God’s plan.

26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

I would then have to point out that sojourners who would have an inheritance with the natives must abide by the laws of the land and not fight them or try to upend and take over or else they are no longer sojourners but an invasion and maybe if it is possible anymore for a person to be an enemy or at minimum unwelcome.

Ezekiel 47:22-23 (English Standard Version)

22 You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. 23 In whatever tribe the sojourner resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, declares the Lord God.

Of course the verses regarding the ‘ger’ or the sojourner are always brought up but in a cherry picked fashion I would add.

Exodus 22:21

21 “You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:33-34

33 “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. 34 You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. 35 “You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity. 36 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin:[a] I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the Lord.”

What needs to be pointed out is that if the sojourner or alien does not abide by the same laws then they lose their rights and certainly have no place for an inheritance.

Numbers 15:15-16

15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the Lord. 16 One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.”

Deuteronomy 27:17-19

17 “‘Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor’s landmark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
18 “‘Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
19 “‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

I would suggest modern immigration and amnesty is all about exploiting people and the citizens of America. This is a curse.

Loving one’s neighbor and the stranger is not the same as giving them one’s inheritance and oppressing your own family in the process.

This article below has some valid and good points to make as people of faith having to deal with 21st century issues.

http://cis.org/statement_on_faith_and_immigration