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The president's speech was farce, if you think your textg proofing proves anything.

With regard to "Ex 23:9 - "Do not oppress an alien; you yourselves know how it feels to be aliens, because you were aliens in Egypt", there is little that is "oppressive" about asking people to obey the law, asking Mexican nationals not to jump the line in front of millions of legal immigrants who are not braking the law, nor in the general and generous treatment that even illegals receive here in spite of their illegality.

With regard to "Le 19:10 - Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God", it is not oppressive to want to leave our grapes for the poor and alien who comes cleanly and openly, with our acceptance, into our "vineyard", as opposed to the thief who enters in stealth and demands to be served.

With regard to "Le 19:33 - "'When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him", and we do not mistreat the legal alien who lives in our land, we even embrace him and ask him to become one of us, while we ask he who enters in the dead of nite, stealthly to return home with our campassionate refusal to punish him for his transgression.

With regard to "Le 19:34 - The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the Lord your God", which is how we treat all our legal immigrants who embrace us openly and come to us openly in the spirit of friendship and honor; while we compassionately send the thief home, after fixing his wounds and feeding him without expecting payment.

With regard to "De 24:19 - When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands", which we do for all our aliens, even the illegal aliens.

With regard to "De 24:20 - When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow", again which we do, graciously, as our safety-net and health care programs attest to.

With regard to "Mt 25:35 - For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in", which we do with every stranger that comes openly to us and seeks with honor to be received by us; while we feed the theif, school his children, tend to his wounds, in spite of his stealth and transgressions.

With regard to "Heb 11:13 - All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth", and those living by faith were not stealthily sneeking into your home in the dead of nite, hidding their presence, taking your fruit from your poorest and then demanding to be adopted.

With regard to "Heb 13:2 - Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it", and there is nothing in our treatment of aliens, legal or illegal that stands below any nation on God's earth.

Your text proofing is morally and religiously insulting.

The bible has a consistent message regarding aliens. There is not "proof texting" going on. A proof text is typically an isolated verse that is taken out of context to demonstrate a point.

I demonstrated numerous texts dealing with aliens. I picked only a few of those that exist.

The bible consistently teaches compassion and mercy for aliens. It does not make our modern distinctions between legal and illegal.

Therefore, Christians are called upon to deal with BOTH legals and illegals in a compassionate and merciful manner....EVEN WHEN we must deport them. Even then it is possible to be BOTH merciful and decisive.

I have no problem with a nation having immigration and naturalization laws. We have a unique situation with our southern border in that we are a rich nation bordering a 3rd world nation. OF COURSE some of those folks from that land of poverty and exploding population are going to come up here.

They are still made in God's image, and Christians should remember that we are people of mercy and compassion.