Do We Slap His Hand Away and Tell Him He is a Criminal?

   If some needy person came up from Mexico, seeking help and having heard we were a rich and prosperous and benevolent nation, and he made it across the border and approached one of us, reaching out his hand and saying, "Please, help me," would we slap his hand away and tell him he was a criminal?

We have a Moral Crisis in Our Middle

   We have a humanitarian crisis at our border and moral crisis in our middle.
   Oh, I do so believe the rejection of the needy people wanting to come into our country is much that people just haven't given it enough thought, to realize that, yes, we should help these people.
   Maybe not the ones who aren't needy, but the ones who are. If these people are coming because they are in need, then, of course we should help. "When saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?"
   Let not the answer to that question be, "In 2014 at the Mexican border."
   And, I am not just talking of the children. I am speaking of all the needy. I know the fear is that they will overrun our land, and overrun our welfare system. I say, let them come. We have not been overpopulated by all the other things that contribute to population growth. We should not be so fearful of immigration. Welfare? If we have created a system where too many people are on our welfare rolls, then, yes, that should be fixed, meaning the welfare system should be fixed. I would remind you, though, we have run up a $17.5 trillion debt already, with a chunk of that due to carrying for our own, and there has not been this kind of outcry against those people who are on welfare.
   As for what to do with the immigrants -- how to care for them inasmuch our welfare system is broken -- if we do not want to add them to the list of people on it, then pass a law turning the care of the needy immigrants over to private charity. Some would say that law would be struck down on basis of equality, and perhaps they are right.
   I only know I do not like the idea of us turning a blind eye on the needy at our border.
 

I Speak of the Immigrants, and This is How We Treat Them

   It is wrong to reject the needy. It is wrong to not help those in need. When they reach out their hand for help, do we slap it down, telling them to get there hands out of our pockets and call them thieves for trying to take our money?
   I speak of the immigrants. This is how we treat them. To me, we are not honorable in how we fail to care for this segment of needy people.

Let the Poor Who Seek Work Have Our Mercy

   I guess some immigration might be like the panhandlers making a good living off begging. Some immigrants perhaps come to get on our welfare rolls. But, are we to judge every immigrant as such? Are there not some -- many -- who come who are in real need? Are there not many who come who come not for welfare, but for work? Are we to treat them harshly, these who are poor and seek only to work?
   Are we to say that since some seek welfare, we should reject the whole lot?

Charity can be More Important than Rule of Law

   Let's say a starving and thirsting person came to my house -- the only house within miles -- and I had a sign saying, "No trespassing," and he came through the gate and knocked my door, anyway. Yes, I guess I could tell him I was going to call the cops and have him hauled off for trespassing, but is pressing for enforcement of the law the right thing to do when it comes at the expense of someone who is in need?
   I wish we applied this same principle to immigration. Charity can be more important than rule of law.

With an Eye on Israel

   Never knowing when the war spoken of in the Bible will occur, violence in the Holy Land -- Israel -- always lifts my eye.
   Three teenage Israeli boys were killed. Israel responded. Rockets are being fired from Gaza into Israel. An Arab boy has been killed. Arab protests are underway in Israel. Such is the news of the day.
   I read how the killing of the Arab boy might be on the face the reason for the protesting, but a suggestion from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to ban the Islamic Movement is also a factor.
   And, another factor being a move to give Arab settlements in an area known as the Triangle over to Palestine. This intrigues me. First, I have not heard of this area of Israel called the Triangle where so many Arabs live. Second, I certainly have not heard of a call to give Israeli territory over to Palestine. Third, that such a move is being considered surprises me, as I thought Israel wanted to keep all of Israel. Fourth, that the Arabs in the Triangle do not want to be ceded to Palestine surprises me. Perhaps it is because the suggestion is that they go in exchange for land in the West Bank being taken from Palestine. I do not know. Perhaps that is also the only reason for the suggestion of giving away land in the Traingle, is that it would only be given in exchange for West Bank land. Then, it all makes sense.

Now, Here's a Solution

   Yes, here's what we can do: If a needy people comes into our midst, we can tell them they're illegal and cast them out.