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If you really have a problem with immigration, then put your money where your mouth is.

If you think we should have open borders and that we should give everything to illegals, then put your money where your mouth is. Go down to the border with water and a first aid kit. Find some illegals and take them into your home. Feed them, house them, clothe them, educate them. Take in as many as you can afford. Do it even if you and your children suffer and do without, even if you have to take on a second or third job.

But no. You're not going to do that. I bet you have locks on your door. You're just very good at telling other people that they should gladly suffer, lose their money, and sacrifice their children's future for illegal aliens.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that the government should take money by force from people and give it to lawbreakers. That's theft. People who want the government to do that are coveters. I don't have a Bible with me, but Paul said that anyone who is not willing to care for those of his own household is worse than an unbeliever. God requires us to care for our own first. He does not require us to sacrifice our children's future in order to care for lawbreakers. The Bible also says we should be in submission to those in authority over us. That means obeying the law.

If you want to be "compassionate" to illegals, bully for you. Donate to charities that give to illegals. That's what God wants...voluntary charity, given out of the goodness of one's heart. NOT government taking our money by force and giving it to envious, covetous, lawbreaking people, all in the name of votes, cheap labor, and ethnic power!

"If you think we should have open borders and that we should give everything to illegals, then put your money where your mouth is."

Ordinarily, I do not respond to straw-man arguments. But I believe your intentions are good, and that in general, you raise some valid points, so I will respond.

I never said that I believe we should have "open borders" or that we should "give everything to illegals." In fact, I do not believe either of those things.

My point is that we need to look at the bigger picture, and not just have knee-jerk reactions to "illegal immigration." It's a complicated issue. And, I think it's hypocritical for our country to benefit from illegal immigrant labor, then treat illegal aliens with such disrespect and contempt.

If we REALLY wanted to stop illegal immigration, we could do it. But we don't. Why? Follow the dollar. We benefit from illegal immigration - that's our dirty little secret. All those businesses who survive off cheap labor, all those people who pay less for goods and services than they otherwise would have to pay - they don't want illegal immigrant labor to dry up. They want to have their cake and eat it too...

I'm for intellectual honest and basic human decency - either way. Either we tighten up our borders, arrest and deport illegal immigrants, and pay the increased costs of goods and services, OR we acknowledge our desire for the cheap labor, and treat them with basic human dignity and the kind of respect and justice talked about in the Bible.