Posted on 08/12/2021 5:30:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
We are often led to believe that it is the Christian thing to do to keep the southern border open. But is that really the case? This question is all the more acute in our nation’s battle against the spread of COVID-19.
President Biden is acting as if there were one standard in dealing with COVID for law-abiding American citizens and another standard for those who break the law – as in the example of the illegal aliens streaming through our porous southern border.
Gary Bauer in his End of Day Report (7/29/21) notes: “While the CDC is forcing vaccinated Americans to mask up again, and the big teachers' unions are suggesting our schools might not reopen in the fall, Biden is leaving our southern border wide open. Six thousand illegal aliens are pouring across the southern border each and every day….These migrants are untested. They're unvaccinated. Many are refusing to take the COVID vaccines. And many are infected with COVID.” Furthermore, he reports that at least 50,000 migrants have been released throughout the country. And outbreaks of COVID are being reported in border detention facilities.
Dr. William Donohue, the president of the Catholic League, wrote an open letter in late July to the Secretary for Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra: “According to recent whistleblowers, children living in HHS migrant shelters are living in subhuman conditions….After enduring a long, arduous journey, these children are sent to camps where Covid is running rampant. In the girls' tents, lice is left untreated while the boys turn riotous because of the poor conditions they are forced to endure during their detainment at HHS facilities.”
Meanwhile, Gov. Greg Abbot of Texas is trying to close the border – in part to stop the spread of COVID – and yet he’s getting direct resistance from the Biden administration.
The Associated Press (7/30/21) reports: “The Biden administration sued Texas…to prevent state troopers from stopping vehicles carrying migrants on grounds that they may spread COVID-19, warning that the practice would exacerbate problems amid high levels of crossings on the state’s border with Mexico.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, tasked by Biden to head the border crisis, says we have to address the “root causes” of why these people are coming before we can seal the borders. One may well ask, “Why is that our burden?” And besides, that could take forever. It’s like saying that before we can administer first aid to a shooting victim, we have to solve the crime first.
The founders of America made it clear when they created the Constitution that their goals were to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Clearly, Biden’s open borders violate many of these key goals.
Dr. Richard Land, president emeritus of Southern Evangelical Seminary, says, “Open borders is national suicide. Polls show us that 170 million people in Latin America would like to come to the United States. I don’t blame them, if I lived in one of those countries, I’d want to come here too. But we cannot absorb 170 million people.”
Such an overrun of our country could ultimately cause a collapse into anarchy.
Dave Kubal, CEO and president of Intercessors for America – a group dedicated to praying for our country – notes, “We are a nation of immigrants….I completely believe in an immigration system, but it has to be legal…94% of those people that come across the border, don’t show up for their amnesty case, and so they're just living illegally in the United States of America.”
But aren’t open borders compassionate? Gary Bauer once told me, “To suggest that because God loves all human beings including migrants, that the United States must open its borders and allow literally millions of people to walk into the country would mean that God was endorsing the end of America as we know it. This country can’t support and pay for millions of millions of people coming into the country.”
But, again, aren’t open borders the Christian position? In his book, "We Will Not Be Silenced," Pastor Erwin Lutzer writes, “I reject the notion that those of us who believe in secure borders are racist and lack compassion….without enforced border control, we have in effect, lost our country. The long-term consequences are devastating.”
The left often chafes at the idea of securing the border – although I’m sure these same people lock their own doors at night. How can our country be safe and secure if the borders are wide open? Isn’t it more compassionate to keep the borders closed, especially at a time when many illegal aliens are dying or getting sick in the migration – and especially as we are experiencing new and perilous strains of COVID?
No, for neither the illegals flooding the country nor the citizens of the country.
If that were the case, why not admit all 3 billion or so poor people?
Obviously, that’s not the reason for it.
The imported illegals are also military aged males, with their future being a hidden, subversive, standing arming within our borders to do the will of their new masters...
DS answer: Kill off the slaves in this country that are waking waking up by using a bioweapon (the jab), and incorporate the smuggled replacements that have already been programmed to server them in whatever capacity, to obey without question...
Mexico liked Trump and his idea of a meaningful border between nations.
I don’t think he liked caravans pouring through Mexico.
The only entity benefiting from this will be the US Federal Government, for a while. Then China will benefit from our destruction.
This is only “compassion” to those who cannot remember past yesterday, or think past tomorrow.
Sympathy and compassion are admirable traits that everyone should embrace, within reason, however this overwrought emotionalism that many on the left clutch onto is destroying us. Not to mention I think, in part, it is tool used by the TPTB to imposed guilt to interfere with critical thinking
Open borders and the welfare state in general are publicly promoted as compassionate.
Compassion is a good thing but dissipating the energy of the productive part of a society on those that can’t sustain themselves without help will ruin the entire society.
Compassion, yes, but not too much.
Government taking away too much of the wealth of the productive part of society is also ruinous.
To the incoming.. Yes
To the Natives.. No
Must we be compassionate when being compassionate is harmful?
Anyone who even listens to some TWOT arguing that as a Christian you are showing compassion by opening a border — well, there is a guy down the block with a plain, unmarked white van with a sign on it : “Kiddies, free candy.”
Send your kids there. The result will be about the same as remaining with the likes of you.
Does the term “terminally stupid” mean anything?
there is such a thing as irrational excess compassion and empathy when it results in the sacrifice of one’s values.
I think Mexico should be held accountable for letting them have free passage towards our borders. We need to ship them back to Mexico and let them take care of them. This would solve our problem real quick. BELIEVE ME!! Abbott needs to put the pressure on the Mexican government along Texas borders demanding they close their nation’s borders or else their maquiladoras Trucks won’t be able to ship anything across our bridges to the US. Simple simple simple as pie that’s all that needs to be done PUT the pressure on Mexico. SHIP THE ILLEGALS TO MEXICO!!!
Sounds simple but I don’t know the details and I’d bet it is
much harder than that action. We are talking National and
Federal Laws, economic impacts, rules/regulations already
in place, etc. etc.
What we need is to complete the border security plan that was
stopped by the current President. Get the USA border secured
along with proper laws regarding those who break them and then
we would a long ways down the road to stopping this mess.
We could put a lot of these illegals on work gangs to do many
projects that would be an asset to the USA. Once they do the
the time then take them back to the border and send the south.
No. That’s been clear for months (if there was any doubt earlier).
Yes, it is compassion - in a “Camp of the Saints” way
How about compassion for the long suffering American citizens that pay for all this crap in numerous ways. You never hear about that.
It is an INVASION!
What to do, since Sloe Joe and The Hoe are doing nothing but encouraging it?
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