"Welcome the stranger" (i.e., illegal aliens)

Summary (posts follow):

One of the religious justifications offered by those who support illegal immigration is their contention that the bible contains multiple exhortations to "welcome the stranger". Religious leaders transmogrify that into a command to support people moving to the U.S. at will. For the religion-based answer, see this and this. There isn't a non-religion based answer that I know of, but those who make this argument can be discredited in other ways based on simple morality. See the false compassion discussion.

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"Tour of the Faithful": Catholic Church, others try to change immigration laws (America's Voice) - 9/13/2008

In September and October, the Catholic Church and others will be holding interfaith events [1] across the U.S. designed to support "comprehensive immigration reform", aka amnesty. This "Tour of the Faithful" (catholicsinalliance.org/node/20123) was apparently organized with the help of Frank Sharry's America's Voice [2] and includes an appearance by former president J...

You can't trust what Harold Meyerson says (immigration edition) - 12/19/2007

Harold Meyerson of the American Prospect offers a vile, illegal immigration-supporting smear piece called "Hard-liners for Jesus". Pretty much everything in it is bad, including comparing the GOP to the KKK. And, he misleads about the immigration stance of all the GOP candidates and the vast majority of GOP voters: But it's on their policies concerning immigrants where Republicans ...

Lawrence Downes/New York Times misleads & smears, and all to support illegal activity - 12/10/2007

[Update here] Lawrence Downes offers an "Editorial Observer" article in the New York Times entitled "Showdown in Arizona, Where Mariachis and Minutemen Collide". It describes a running protest by illegal immigration supporters in front of the M. D. Pruitt furniture store in Phoenix. He had the temerity to try to keep day laborers off his property, employing off-duty sherriffs i...

Sojourners/Jim Wallis promoting massive amnesty to Congress - 4/07/2007

Continuing the age old debate about whether someone is a crook or an idiot, Jim Wallis' Sojourners organization is sending out an email to their mailing list urging people to contact Congress in support of a massive illegal alien amnesty. A purported copy is here: tgdarkly.com/blog/?p=542 Wallis has a blog at beliefnet.com/blogs/godspolitics, and I urge everyone to leave comments there des...

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports Senate amnesty (Part #44849) - 9/27/2006

From this: Religious leaders Tuesday scolded lawmakers who oppose a broad immigration policy overhaul and urged them at a Capitol Hill news conference to put people over politics. As pointed out here many times, their policies will make the situation far worse. A much better suggestion is that they think things through and put what's in the best interests of all concerned ahead of their own...

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