We are big on rule of law, but shouldn't we also ask if our laws our just? I think of Vicky Chavez, who with her two children is holed up in a church in Salt Lake City to avoid deportation. I wonder if a case like hers should make us wonder. A young mother who doesn't appear to be doing any harm to America by being here, why should we insist she leave? Is she a thief, a drug runner, or a terrorist? Not likely. So, why do we not want her? If we can see she is doing no harm, why do we think it so imperative to kick her out?
Are laws just when they take good people and make them illegal? I don't know how endangered she will be if she goes back to Honduras. If she is endangered there, of course she should be allowed to stay here in America. And, even if she isn't endangered, if we had just laws, perhaps we would be letting her stay.
Maybe we should cry for our nation. What have we become, that we do not allow good people (a certain set of them) to live among us? Laws that are unjust should be changed. We should be as concerned about having unjust laws as we are about the laws we have being kept.
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