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Posted on 03/23/2006 12:28:28 PM PST by Crackingham
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the Bible yesterday to criticize a stringent border security measure that, among other things, would make it a federal crime to offer aid to illegal immigrants.
"It is hard to believe that a Republican leadership that is constantly talking about values and about faith would put forth such a mean-spirited piece of legislation," she said of the measure, which was passed by the House of Representatives in December and mirrored a companion Senate bill introduced last week by Senator Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican and the majority leader.
"It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scripture because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself," she said. "We need to sound the alarm about what is being done in the Congress."
Mrs. Clinton, who is running for re-election this year and is leading in polls for the Democratic presidential nomination, spoke at a news conference in Manhattan with more than 30 immigrant leaders after meeting with them privately.
The meeting took place in an atmosphere of mounting urgency, as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on its flock to oppose the measure, and tens of thousands of immigrants around the country stepped up a series of protest rallies in anticipation of a Senate vote on competing immigration bills next week.
Mr. Frist's bill, like the House measure, would make it a crime to be in the United States without proper papers and would add guards and fencing along the Mexican border, and speed deportation.
Some versions, including one proposed by Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, would expand the definition of alien smuggling to include help to illegal immigrants already here.
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Fine - let's start with "a hot meal and shelter" - should that be criminalized?
Thank you - now you know what Hillary Clinton and I are talking about.
Easy --
Someone hungry comes to our food pantry. We feed them. We don't check their IDs.
Someone comes to our Wednesday night supper, pays the $3, they get a great meal and fellowship in English and Spanish.
No one checks any IDs during ANY normal 'spiritual' or outreach function of the church.
No. Is it?
That's what HR 4437 may do.
Precisely the real issue. I wish someone, anyone in the media would keep bringing this up to both the Leftists and the Neo-Cons. What is holding Mexico back? Why are over a million people a year risking their lives, and their children's lives, to cross a burning dessert to get out of Mexico. If conservatives could frame this in terms of a human tragedy that is happening on our borders, then we would regain control of the argument (force them to throw the spector of racism away), and we could force the politicos to answer the tough questions.
She is also starting to turn on the Iraq war. I expect her to run as an antiwar canadite in '08, promising to bring the troops home from Iraq, Afghanistan, and to drastically downsize the forces we currently have.
That is why Hillary is invoking the Good Samaritan and Jesus - the GOP has handed her this issue on a silver platter - if you thought this was bad, just wait until CNN starts showing Christians arrested and led in handcuffs from soup kitchens.
If I stop to help a disabled motorist on the side of a highway somewhere, I don't ask him for a valid driver's license and proof of citizenship.
just one more reason why this Catholic here refuses to go to church.
Revelation 21:8
"But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
(NKJV)
Calling ART BELL: The world must be coming to an end soon: Hillary is quoting the Bible!!!!!
Well, did you read the quoted section from the law about assisting aliens? If you "recklessly disregard" whether that disable motorist is illegal, and help him, you too could be carted off to jail.
I would be worried about possible arrest if HR 4437 if gets passed then.
The Mexican government does nothing for its people. It's a going no where country with no LOCAL incentive.
Tell Mexico to change!! They have lotsa oil there.
Now do you think Churches should be allowed to hide lawbreakers for the express purpose of hiding them from law enforcement?Yes or No.
Basically, feed the hungry without asking immigration status? Yes. Hide illegals set for deportation in your Church's basement to keep them from deportation? No
I've been a bit busy here responding to everyone to look up the Church's policy on sanctuary . . . be right back.
Look--illegal immigrants are just that---CRIMINALS. They are stealing from poor American citizens and LEGAL immigrants with every day they spend here, and every action they take. THEY SHOULD ALL BE DEPORTED.
This is a completely separate category from a "guest worker program", which is a good thing. What you wetback lovers fail to realize is that by allowing these people to move here, you remove the incentive on the part of their home country governments to actually improve the situation THERE, causing even more pain and misery for the folks who can't or won't make the attempt to emigrate.
Like all good "liberal" actions, the "unintended consequences" are worse than the proposed action. THAT is why the Church is wrong on this issue.
You want to "love your neighbor"?? Deport all the illegals, then send them money to buy guns to fix the governments in their home countries.
BUT the church should not impede the law or lie to protect a lawbreaker. Should an illegal go to a church for shelter and/or aid then the church is well within it's rights to give that aid. After a period of time that individual should make efforts to make himself legal or move on and relieve the burden from that church.
MARK 12:17 Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." They marveled greatly at him.
The law of the land is to be followed as well as the law of the church. It is not the duty of the church to aid a lawbreaker, it is that person's duty to make themself lawful.
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