"A kingdom issue"

Baptist leader Richard Land backs citizenship for illegal immigrants tennessean.com The Tennessean

Mr. Land, is the “suffering” of illegal immigrants in America any worse than what they would face back home? And is it possible that this suffering is justified when someone brings it upon himself by breaking the law and defies authorities who according to your Bible work on God’s behalf and should be obeyed?

If the answer to both questions is no, then I also pose another question: Why take the easy way out by, apparently, simply proposing secure borders and amnesty for lawbreakers? Why not go all out and also call for measures which would make the peril and travails of illegal immigration unnecessary in the first place? For instance, Mexico is not a country which is a wasteland of natural resources or which utterly lacks potential to become an economic or technological powerhouse such as Japan, South Korea, or modern China....

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Valedictorian Deported

Here's a story about how a valedictorian is being deported back to Armenia because they were not granted assylum after being in the US for more than 20 years.

While it is a sad story and it is too bad that it happened to a nice, seemingly well-adjusted family, it is important that folks who are in the US are making the effort to be here legally. This case is different than folks just running over the border.

Emotionally, I hope this family gets to stay. Lawfully, I think that we ought not give citizenship rights to those not here in America legally. I think the right thing was done here, as difficult a decision it may have been.

We must be careful that a nice story does not cloud our judgement to do the right thing.

Derrick