How many hospitals would Jesus close? (Freeper op-ed)

Elvira Arellano’s new T-shirt has me wondering how many hospitals Jesus would close.

Arellano is the illegal alien and pro-law breaking activist (she wouldn’t call herself that, but a spade is a spade) who is holed up in a Chicago church, hoping to avoid deportation. She says she should get to stay here because her 7 year old son Saulito is an American citizen. Her new shirt, pictured in the Journal-Standard recently, reads “Who Would Jesus Deport?”

Strangely, I don’t recall hearing any teachings on immigration policy during my Sunday school days. But given the wild success of products asking “WWJD”—What Would Jesus Do—it’s inevitable it would pop up in the political discourse. Strikingly, almost all these political versions come from the Left. True, questions like “Who would Jesus Torture” are supposed to be rhetorical, but if the people asking them were really trying to promote truth, they wouldn’t stop asking questions so soon.

Take for example, “Who would Jesus bomb,” asked on protest signs and blogs, in editorials and even a protest song. Another popular variation was “Who would Jesus kill?” Yet they never ask how many hijacking schools, terrorist training camps, child prisons and torture chambers Jesus would leave open. In the face of great evil even a slogan inspired by history’s greatest moral light is trite and bereft of sense.

I wonder why the Left doesn’t apply the WWJD principle to other problems. How many of those asking “Who would Jesus kill” have ever asked, “Who would Jesus abort?” One might also ask, “How many condoms would Jesus pass out at school,” and “Would Jesus ban prayer in school?” Of course, one could also ask why a movement known for its strict view of separation of church and state would decide to search the scriptures of a single religion for policy directives.

So, how many hospitals would Jesus close? A 2005 study appearing in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons found that 60 hospitals had closed in California alone between 1993 and 2003 as a direct result of illegal immigration. Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985, hospitals must treat the uninsured without reimbursement. Though the law was intended to guarantee that no emergency room would turn away a patient in crisis, it’s led to illegals using ERs for their primary care. Those 60 hospitals had all reached a point where they were paid for less than half of the services they performed. The study also found 24 hospitals on the brink of bankruptcy.

Whose wages would Jesus decimate? In 1980, according to the Department of Labor, a meat packer could expect to make $19 an hour. Today the going wage is less than $10. Across the board, American wages are lowered by as much as $200 billion dollars by illegal aliens. The Left speaks a lot about the squeezed middle class, but these champions of the working man will line up to vote for amnesty in Congress in the new year.

How many false Social Security numbers would Jesus use? Arellano was going to be deported because she convicted of that exact crime. The immigration bill the Congress narrowly rejected this year even had provisions for paying out Social Security benefits to those who’ve stolen other people’s numbers. Of course that only applies if they came over the border illegally; legal immigrants and native born citizens get to go to jail when they steal someone’s identity.

A long line of Christian organizations, notably America’s Catholic bishops, backed amnesty this year. They made a lot of noise about how such reforms were a sign of loving one’s neighbor. When we reward lawbreaking on the part of illegals and the businesses that hire them we penalize businesses, workers and legal immigrants that follow the law. Aren’t they our neighbors too? Is shafting them the Christian thing to do? Is the cause of justice served by letting Mexico’s fatcats export their poor to the U.S. instead of enacting reforms at home?

Of course, despite my love of Christ, I’m not interested in governing by Bible verse. That’s theocracy, not democracy. Even if a principle is based in Christian teachings, one must win the public policy debate to implement it. That’s the real reason for Elvira’s shirt. If you can pretend the Almighty is your personal mascot, you don’t have to explain why rewarding lawbreaking is good for a society. You can just “win” the policy debate by saying “Thus saith the Lord.” When a conservative does that, he’s dismissed and rightly so.

We’re a nation of laws (not T-shirts), and our duty to enforce them in a just manner. Still, if Arellano and her allies want a verse to base immigration policy on, I suggest John 10:1.

Please take time to join a National outcry!

Elvira must not become a precedent for illegal aliens!

Americans have patiently waited for ICE/Homeland security to deport Elvira Arellano, the illegal alien who defied a government order that she turn herself in to the Department of Homeland Security for deportation. Instead, she took sanctuary in Chicago in a West Side church. The 31-year-old woman was arrested in 2002 during an immigration sweep at O'Hare International Airport. Homeland Security officials noted that Arellano had already been deported once, in 1997, and that she had a criminal conviction for Social Security fraud." This conviction makes her ineligible for U. S. citizenship.

http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/001793.html

Many of the groups supporting Elvira are anarchist or communist groups with an unstated mission of defeating the United States of America. Just what is the aim of a group that calls itself "Center Without Borders?" Why would they be helping a fugitive? Elvira Arellano's protest is really a protest to undermine the sovereignty of the United States of America by abolishing the concept of citizenship, as we know it.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0608170087aug17,1,3209935.story?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed

Elvira Arellano's protest has gone international, now, with Mexico getting involved, while she uses her son Saul as a political pawn.

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/2006/11/12/elvira-arellanos-son-being-used-as-political-pawn-again/

Illegal immigrants have turned around the lives of many Americans, altering our communities for the worse, wasting our tax dollars and transforming our public schools. It is time to clean up this corruption. Sending the fugitive Elvira Arellano back to Mexico is a good place to start.

Have you had enough? Since Elvira Arellano is calling upon allies locally and internationally, we are responding likewise. We are appealing to people across the United States, take time to write a letter! We cannot allow the fugitive Elvira to stay here in the United States and create precedence for illegal aliens across America. The country you save may be your own!

We are asking that you physically write a letter and send it to:

U. S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
Special Counsel Northern Illinois
Washington Office:
Bond Federal Building
1400 New York Avenue, NW, Ninth Floor Washington D. C. 20530

You can make your letter short, but be sure to include two things:

1) Please ask U. S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate why ICE/Homeland Security in Illinois has not deported Elvira Arellano, We want ICE to do the job taxpayers pay them to do.

2) Please ask why hasn't Rev. Coleman of Adalberto United Methodist Church been arrested for aiding and abetting an illegal alien and a fugitive.

U. S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald already knows about these lawbreakers in Chicago. Let's give him another chance to enforce our immigration laws for the good of all Americans.

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/2614/1//

Here are her court documents. She stole someone elses SS number in order to have access to the secured area of the airport. I guess those OBLers should be glad she was just one of those harding working 'immigrants' doing the jobs we lazy Americans won't, and not a female suicide bomber.

http://oneoldvet.com/files/Arellano-1.pdf

http://oneoldvet.com/files/Arellano-Recommendation.pdf

"She tried to enter with someone else's documentation because she didn't have documentation of her own. Although it was wrong for Ms. Arellano to conceal her identity, she did what so many otherwise law abiding immigrants have done......As the Pastors at St. Pius V Paris explain in a letter to the court...."she works hard, takes care of her son, and is not harmful to anyone"

What about the identity she stole?

http://oneoldvet.com/files/ArellanoPleaAgreement.pdf
http://oneoldvet.com/files/ArellanoSentence.pdf
http://oneoldvet.com/files/ArellanoSonSaulManon.pdf

Elvira Arellano one of the most phenomenal women of the year
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747056/posts

I prefer Romans 13:1

Submission to the Authorities

1Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. 3For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4For he is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. 5Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience.

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