Is it right for a Christian to offer food and shelter to someone that robbed a bank? Of course not. We know that the thief should be in police custody and that the authorities are more than capable of providing food and shelter, in addition to a trial for the illegal activity. Since this matter is so clear cut regarding this and other violations of the law, I am amazed at how some Christians attempt to blur the issue regarding illegal immigration. It really is as clear cut as the person that robs a bank. The bank robber stealing by cover of night and the illegal immigrant have a lot in common. In both cases, both parties wish to have more money. In both cases, both parties violate the law in their efforts. With the bank robber, they acquire money that they are not legally entitled to. With the border jumper, they acquire services and even employment that they are not legally entitled to. The border jumper that is handed over to authorities is provided with food and care by authorities, before being sent back to their nation of origin. In both cases the authorities treat the violator humanely.

So I look at people like Catholic Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and find his application of scripture to be a bit perverted.

This is a man who feels he is doing something “Christ like” when he’s doing exactly the opposite. He has asked his followers to disobey the laws of this land, when he is only helping illegals to get a pay raise. As I’ve pointed out before, these illegals had jobs where they came from. Those jobs are the same jobs that keep people still in places like Mexico fed and sheltered. It is not “Christian” to facilitate a pay raise while breaking the law in regards to someone who already had employment. The people of Mexico are not like the starving people in some parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. So this is not an issue of helping to save people’s lives. It is simply a matter of people who wish to increase their level of self worth.

This means helping illegals is not really a matter of helping the “needy”, but more a matter of trying to give people more than the basic necessities to survive. Which puts Christians helping illegals into a very dangerous position from a scriptural standpoint. Because the verses regarding helping the needy no longer apply. The Christian that helps illegals is violating the laws of this land and helping people who are simply in pursuit of wealth.

We know authorities treat border jumpers humanely. So we Christians have no justification to disregard America’s laws regarding immigration.

Immigration laws help to ensure that people enter our nation in an orderly fashion and we are not allowing in criminals or terrorists. There is no violation of God’s law to have such rules in place. To make the rules stiffer is not a violation of God’s law either, given the people entering would be able to survive in their country of origin. Also, are some of the men entering illegally running away from families on the other side of the border? Questions like this cannot be answered without some sort of review process. To allow unchecked entry has resulted in a strain on American law enforcement, given we know some illegals are even members of violent gangs. We also know drugs are being smuggled in as well.

Given we know illegals had work before coming to the USA, there is nothing wrong with sending them back to their country of origin. Americans offer plenty of aid and charity to people in foreign lands that need it. So Christians are able to help those in actual need that reside in other nations without making them a burden on America’s taxpayers. If Christians feel there are people in need South of the Border, then we are fully capable of sending them charity from our own church coffers. It is not at all “Christian” to pass off the church’s duty of giving alms to American taxpayers who may not even be Christians.

The laws in America exist to maintain order in this nation. Illegal immigrants are causing disorder in regards to government’s management of services, law enforcement’s ability to effectively maintain order and individual’s efforts to find employment. So it is not “unGodly” to support efforts to keep our borders secure and expel those who have violated this nation’s immigration laws. Americans can help others outside of this nation by giving to them where they are, if alms are required. And entry into this nation is best done via an orderly process, that does not interfere with the flow of our economy.

It makes no sense to help illegals in their efforts for a pay raise, when we see it brings hardship on poor Americans looking for work and taxpayers. This is robbing the American of opportunities and services, in order to give them to the illegal alien.

These words regarding helping people to break the law, while catering to their desires for a more convenient life also apply to those who claim the faith while endorsing abortion. Given we know the targeted and intentional slaughter of innocent life is total sin. Be sure to see how NewsBusters has exposed Planned Parenthood’s relationship with members of the clergy, that support their efforts to kill babies.

Helping people break the law and killing babies are not things that can be done “in the name of Jesus”.

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