Excellent points, Tom. Hate to sound like a broken record, but we need you as President in 28. If Jesus tarries, of course. King Jesus is infinitely preferable to any office of man's devising.
I've never been apposed to allowing immigrants become citizens; however, I am apposed to a broad amnesty approach that just allows all immigrants legal or illegal to become citizens. Not all immigrants have good will or intentions for our country or people.
Amnesty would have to be, as you said, with vetting, on a local level to accomplish it. There are many immigrants, I realized just this past year and not because of Trump, come over illegally because they feel they have no other choice to get away from the oppression they face. My family would do so if we felt we had no other choice to keep our family together and safe. So I understand that these immigrants come over illegally not because they are enemies to our country but because they feel they will be safe here.
My family would want compassion and the ability to become citizens to wherever we went if we needed to leave here in a hurry and pass into another country illegally. There is no reason why I shouldn't want that for other families or people who are in need.
Allow immigrants the ability to abide in our country until they have been completely vetted. If they pass the test of good will, give them citizenship if they want it. If they turn out to be enemies to a Republic that stands for the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, ok, let them have their trial and deport them if the proof is there. If they're undocumented, let them be as long as they are not depriving others of their rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Immigrants are people. They have emotions. They have children, mother's and father's and grandparents. They feel physical and emotional pain and suffering just as anyone else. Our Lord showed compassion on all the nations of people by dying for all nations of people who will accept His gift of salvation. Is it so much to ask that we show enough compassion for our fellow human beings to provide them a country to live in freely where rights are supposed to be secured?
Amnesty and other offered shortcuts in the immigration system were all also hoped for shortcuts that would it was hoped move as many people as possible from outside the system to inside the immigrant system in order to better regulate their presence and to reduce the burden on the enforcement side of the system- with the understanding that the entire immigration system was undermanned and underfunded for what it was being asked to do. There were also the political aspects which led to the augmentation of the number of immigrants in added “extra legal” visas for communities with some political influence.
Reminds me of the Swedish hymn, "If I Gained the World, But Not Jesus." "Om Jag Ägde Allt Men Inte Jesus" (If I gained the world, but not the Savior, would life be worth living...?)
Poet Rudyard Kipling wrote, "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet til Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgement Seat. But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, when two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the Earth." The first two lines are oft quoted, but the last two lines are not. In a moral and political context, we could exchange "left" and "right" for "east" and "west." I never thought I'd be so far right that I "met" the left on such an issue.
Excellent points, Tom. Hate to sound like a broken record, but we need you as President in 28. If Jesus tarries, of course. King Jesus is infinitely preferable to any office of man's devising.
I've never been apposed to allowing immigrants become citizens; however, I am apposed to a broad amnesty approach that just allows all immigrants legal or illegal to become citizens. Not all immigrants have good will or intentions for our country or people.
Amnesty would have to be, as you said, with vetting, on a local level to accomplish it. There are many immigrants, I realized just this past year and not because of Trump, come over illegally because they feel they have no other choice to get away from the oppression they face. My family would do so if we felt we had no other choice to keep our family together and safe. So I understand that these immigrants come over illegally not because they are enemies to our country but because they feel they will be safe here.
My family would want compassion and the ability to become citizens to wherever we went if we needed to leave here in a hurry and pass into another country illegally. There is no reason why I shouldn't want that for other families or people who are in need.
Allow immigrants the ability to abide in our country until they have been completely vetted. If they pass the test of good will, give them citizenship if they want it. If they turn out to be enemies to a Republic that stands for the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, ok, let them have their trial and deport them if the proof is there. If they're undocumented, let them be as long as they are not depriving others of their rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Immigrants are people. They have emotions. They have children, mother's and father's and grandparents. They feel physical and emotional pain and suffering just as anyone else. Our Lord showed compassion on all the nations of people by dying for all nations of people who will accept His gift of salvation. Is it so much to ask that we show enough compassion for our fellow human beings to provide them a country to live in freely where rights are supposed to be secured?
Amnesty and other offered shortcuts in the immigration system were all also hoped for shortcuts that would it was hoped move as many people as possible from outside the system to inside the immigrant system in order to better regulate their presence and to reduce the burden on the enforcement side of the system- with the understanding that the entire immigration system was undermanned and underfunded for what it was being asked to do. There were also the political aspects which led to the augmentation of the number of immigrants in added “extra legal” visas for communities with some political influence.
Amen brother...
Reminds me of the Swedish hymn, "If I Gained the World, But Not Jesus." "Om Jag Ägde Allt Men Inte Jesus" (If I gained the world, but not the Savior, would life be worth living...?)
Poet Rudyard Kipling wrote, "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet til Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgement Seat. But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, when two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the Earth." The first two lines are oft quoted, but the last two lines are not. In a moral and political context, we could exchange "left" and "right" for "east" and "west." I never thought I'd be so far right that I "met" the left on such an issue.