Posted on 08/28/2011 5:56:29 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
The Alabama Legislature opened its session on March 1 on a note of humility and compassion. In the Senate, a Christian pastor asked God to grant members wisdom and discernment to do what is right. Not whats right in their own eyes, he said, but whats right according to your word. Soon after, both houses passed, and the governor signed, the countrys cruelest, most unforgiving immigration law. The law, which takes effect Sept. 1, is so inhumane that four Alabama church leaders an Episcopal bishop, a Methodist bishop and a Roman Catholic archbishop and bishop have sued to block it, saying it criminalizes acts of Christian compassion. It is a sweeping attempt to terrorize undocumented immigrants in every aspect of their lives, and to make potential criminals of anyone who may work or live with them or show them kindness.
It effectively makes it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant in Alabama, by criminalizing working, renting a home and failing to comply with federal registration laws that are largely obsolete. It nullifies any contracts when one party is an undocumented immigrant. It requires the police to check the papers of people they suspect to be here illegally.
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Absolutely. Mexico has 5.6% unemployment. That's down .1% from a year ago. America should be so lucky. They have a "social safety net" too.
It's a beautiful place that I've traveled far and wide before and would visit again under the right circumstances. I've even volunteered for a Mexican orphanage.
It has its downsides, like any country. Chiefly, these days, it's pockets of cartel violence near the border.
These writers act as if the return of its citizens to Mexico is like a return to a genocidal Sudan or Pol Pot's Cambodia or turning away Jewish refugees feeling from Nazi Germany.
It's absolute nonsense.
More like a “puke with chunks” alert!
Nah, the progressive churches think you can pick and choose those, too.
When they start paying taxes like everyone else, then they can participate in political debate that costs millions of working taxpayers billions$.
If those bishops gave up their exalted positions and went to a Third World Country and worked directly with the sick and poor-———— then I’d listen to them talk about Christian compassion.
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