Seeing Parellels between the Life of Christ and the Lives of Immigrants

I consider the parallels between the life of Christ and the lives of the immigrants.
Christ was born in the land of Judea, which was in southwestern Palestine. Warned of God to flee, He was taken to Egypt to escape Herod's killing him, then he returned across the border of that southern country into the southwestern part of Palestine. Many of the immigrants we now have coming up from the southern countries have Native American blood in them, making them Israelites, even as Christ descended from Jacob. I do not know where Lehi's colony landed. I've heard some say it was in California. I do not know. Early on, they were, like Christ's parents, warned to flee from their original spot, as the Lamanites were seeking to kill them. Did they move south? I do not know. But, I do know they are coming into the southwestern portion of the United States, which is considered God's land. Even so, Christ returned to the southwestern portion of God's land.

Christ was rejected all the time after he returned to Israel, even as the immigrants are rejected once they arrive in America. Elisabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, spoke of having her reproach taken away. Mary, the mother of our Savior, spoke of how the Father had "regarded the low esteem of his handmaiden." Even so, we hold these immigrants in low regard. I think of how Christ was chased much of his life by the scribes and the Pharisees, so chased that he was forced into hiding, and "therefore walked no more openly." Even so, the immigrants are forced into hiding. One scripture tells us, speaking of Christ, "If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation." Even so, we are told that if we leave the immigrants alone and do not do something, they will become more numerous than us, and we will lose our place and our nation. They will destroy our country. Jesus once cast unclean spirits out of a man called Legion, and cast them into a herd of swine, and the swine ran over a cliff and were killed. And, when the people saw the man who had had the devils, and that he was with Christ, they became very afraid. Even so, we are afraid of the criminals among the immigrants today. Consider also that the swine running over the cliff must have been an economic loss for the people, even as we speak of the damage to our economy that the immigrants cause. And, consider that Christ was performing an act of charity and healing toward this man, Legion, even as we provide charitable care to the immigrants as they enter our hospitals and use our social net.. And, when the people heard the story of the man named Legion, and of the swine, "they began to pray him (Christ) to depart out of their coasts." Even so, for fear of the criminals among them, and for their obtaining our social services, and for their damaging us economically, we ask them to depart out of our land. Christ was eventually tried for his crimes, and found guilty of claiming to be that which they supposed He was not. It was considered blasphemy for Him to think He was the Son of God. The scripture reads, "Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God." Even so, we somewhat think it blasphemy for them to think they belong here in America, that they are equal to the Americans who are already here.

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