[george wythe]

Christian Coalition of America:

Favors earned citizenship, not amnesty; believes deportation is impractical; supports tighter border security.

Council on American-Islamic Relations:

Supports earned citizenship; keeping families united; favors security to exclude terrorists, with safeguards against abuse. Opposes a guest worker program and criminalizing humanitarian aid.

Focus on the Family:

The group has not addressed the issue

U.S. Conference on Catholic Bishops:

Favors comprehensive immigration reform, including legal means for immigrants already here to become residents. Supports earned citizenship instead of blanket amnesty. Opposes criminalizing immigrants and those who provide humanitarian aid

Family Research Council:

Border security is the top priority, and the group hasn't taken a stand on other issues such as amnesty, guest workers or criminalization of illegal immigrants

National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference:

Supports a guest worker program, provisions for illegal immigrants to earn citizenship and streamlined procedures for reuniting families

National Association of Evangelicals:

The group declines to take an official stand.

[trubluolyguy]

Deport them back the POS country they came from. If they want to come back LEGALLY then they are more than welcome at my church. But they better learn english because we don't do bi-lingualism.

[muawiyah]

(answering the title to this one)

Ah, yes, not only deport him, but deport him first. Mexico needs a solid middle-class. This is a start.

[jbp1]

Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's,
Give unto Tax-paying, law-abiding Americans what is theirs
Give unto border hoppers.... the boot

[Tzimisce]

Respect is a two way street.

[Mr. Mojo]

It is more important to welcome the stranger or to respect the rule of law?

The intention of millions of these particular strangers is to turn our great nation into a carbon copy of their cesspools of origin, their allegiance remaining wholly with the latter.

Deport their asses, pronto.

[Bryan24]

Mat 22:17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?


Mat 22:18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, [ye] hypocrites?


Mat 22:19 Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.


Mat 22:20 And he saith unto them, Whose [is] this image and superscription?


Mat 22:21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.


Point being, obey the laws of the land. If the laws go against God, obey God.

Border control does NOT go against God.

Deport them.

[Lurking Libertarian]

Leviticus 13:33-34 (NIV):

33 When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. 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.

[Egon]

Not sure why this is such a hard concept. When I invite someone into my house, I expect that they enter through the front door, not the basement window.

[SouthernFreebird]

Taking what isn't yours is a violation of Scripture.When they cut in line of those who obey the immigration laws they are stealing. Sneaking into a place that isn't yours and breaking laws to do it is not Scriptural either so why would anyone assume Jesus would condone and bless those actions.

[ClearCase_guy]

protect Americans from outsiders, or an open-door policy to ensure opportunity to the poor of other nations?

Wonderful phrasing.

"protect Americans from outsiders"?? What a close-minded, bigoted way of looking at things! Who are we afraid of? Only an evil Republican would have any interest in that!

"an open-door policy to ensure opportunity to the poor of other nations" Well, now you're talking. That's humane. That's rational. All good people feel this way about the issue, of course. My friends and I are in perfect agreement.

no bias here.

[Finop]

Blithering idiots... Just more political leftspeak for "We demand you let us break your laws"

[sangoo]

Beam me up Scotty! I'm getting sick. The Christian thing is to deport them to the trash country they came from.

[cripplecreek]

Yes we can. Nothing would be better for Mexico.

[iluvlucy]

Typical liberal staging of a question.

When was the last time you saw an article that started with the question:

Can a Christian love his neighbor and still be a cop writing a traffic ticket?
or
Can a Christian love his neighbor and still receive a welfare check?
or
Can a Christian love his neighbor and still collect taxes for the government?


Okay okay the last one is a bad example we all know the answer to that one. ;-)

[L98Fiero]

As a Christian, one is not to support our laws if it causes lawbreakers some discomfort.


That's what I get from their argument. Makes no sense.

[mikemach5]

Immigrant advocates warned that a crackdown would harm families and violate Scripture.

Total crap. Jesus never said to break the law. In fact He said "Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." (Matthew 22:21)

[DoctorMichael]

Christians ask: Can you love thy neighbor but deport him, too?

Love does not necessarily equate with extreme suicidal altruism.

[TruthRespecter]

I recall Biblical directives from Christ Jesus that we should render unto Caesar those things that are Caesar's... which I take as a clear directive to follow the law of the land you're living in.

Therefore, I can well imagine His advice to the illegal immigrant (of any nation) would be to leave the US - and if desirous to return, (s)he should then re-enter the US following the proper legal procedure.

[trillabodilla]

God is not a door mat. God is a God of Love, but people conveniently forget that God is also a God of Justice. He don't like law-breakin'.