Recently my wife sent an email out to her family asking them to sign an online petition against the new bills suggesting that illegal immigrants could get access to social security and other government assitance programs without having to obey the law. This is not a debateable point. People talk about how this country was built on immigrants. They talk about how their parents came over through Ellis Island. I am not against that. Your parents came over LEGALLY!!! What is so hard to understand about that just follow the freakin' law.
I am not against people from any country coming into the United States and calling it home. My current business partner is from Canada and is here on a TN Visa, for his position, but he is here legally. We both had to fill out paper work and write letters and make sure that both governments were aware of what was going on. I welcome him and will support him in any endeavor he wishes to take.
However, when you are here illegally and refuse to follow the law. When the government of your country hands out pamphlets on how to illegally cross the border then you should be found, arrested and deported. I know this is not popular, but it is the law. We certainly should not make it more of a carrott to break the law. That being said here was the answer that one of my wife's family members gave.
"I feel a great deal of sympathy with these immigrants. They are just poor people desperately trying to escape abject poverty, poor health care, poor education, and a future without much hope, to make a better life for themselves and their children. Yes, technically they are breaking the law, but many of those criticizing them also break the law routinely by traffic violations, cheating on their taxes, shady business deals, and in other ways. Remember that Jesus also broke the law, at least as the Pharisees understood it, when he did good deeds on the Sabbath, but he told them that "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath". I believe the same should apply broadly to the law: that the law should work for the benefit of mankind and not be used to oppress those most in need. Remember also that the Bible places much emphasis on mercy, tolerance, and the brotherhood of man. A strict legality in dealing with these immigrants runs counter, I think, to those Christian ideals. If Jesus were among us today, I have no doubt that he would side with the immigrants.
Also, I think you should be aware that the various claims made against the immigrants are usually highly exaggerated. They are not costing taxpayers nearly as much as the alarmists make them out to be, and they do pay taxes and are no more criminally inclined than any other group. Maxine knew a lot of Mexican immigrants in California and taught their children, and she has a great deal of admiration for them as a people. They work very hard, they are very family-oriented, and the vast majority of them make good citizens. Ricky, her son Jim's partner, is a good example of that."
The problem with that answer is simply this. He never once used the word illegal and he constatnly refers to Christ and his word. Well, let me tell you what Jesus himself (OK the red words in the bible are assumed to be that and for lack of better proof I am using that as "himself" reference here). He said "Give unto Ceaser's what is Ceaser's and give unto God what is God's". The law of illegal immigrants is Ceaser's so I think I have an idea of what might be said here. I am sorry for the victims of illegal immigrants. The anchor children, and the families, but you have made a choice to break the law. Just like someone who murders, steals or any other crime and for that there is punishment.
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