Please explain why should illegals be allowed to stay?the bible condemns it?
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Illegals should not be allowed to stay.  I do not know anything about the bible but I do know about taxes, our welfare system, our criminal justice system, lack of jobs, abuse of our social services  and that people in this country need to speak our English language.  They should not be allowed to stay, they certainly should not have special treatment.
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wow - that's an overgeneralized statement, don't ya think?\n\nHate is a very strong word...\n\nI believe it's the ILLEGAL part of immigration that most people have a problem with - not the immigration itself.\n\nLast time I checked the US was a FREE, Democratic society - you can't just throw someone out - unless they are here ILLEGALLY that is... \n\nThank God for that!
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I guess for the same reason that they apparently want illegals to be allowed to stay in the US and be paid slave wages.  Its a very strange belief system.
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They have a right to leave and come here legally.  Illegals appear to have more rights and privileges than American citizens.
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Mexican are not "allowed" to stay. The laws are the same no matter what - its what the government CHOOSES to do about it.
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I'm never surprised to see idiots like J D answer this question with such hate and ignorance.\n\nI don't believe amnesty is the answer and I certainly don't believe that being here without proper paperwork is a crime where over-worked and under-paid law enforcement personal need to go after undocumented immigrants with full force (unless they are shipping in drugs or guns). Our courts and prisons would be overflowing worse than they are now. \n\nHate, fear, and discrimination should not led our hearts when dealing with these issues for in fact are we not Christians?!?! May God have mercy upon idiots like J D and people who think like he does.
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not all are for illegal immigration i guess you take scriptures and justify anything but i think god would tell mexico to help themselves and admitt wrong doing in this as well!\n\nOh Lord God Almighty, the supply and supplier of faith and freedom, how excellent is Your name in all the earth. You are great and greatly to be praised. God, as we conclude this 55th inaugural ceremony, we conclude it with an attitude of thanksgiving. Thank You for protecting America's borders. After all, the Psalmist reminds us, unless You, O God, guard the territory, our efforts will be in vain. \nExodus 23:20-31 "I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River. I will hand over to you the people who live in the land and you will drive them out before you.\n\nExodus 20:12-17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."\n\nProverbs 25:17-17 17 "Seldom set foot in your neighbor's house-- too much of you, and he will hate you."\n\nLeviticous 19:11-"'Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly."\n\nand yes jesus said help the poor but he never said let anyone run over you.\nThe Bible never supports people tresspassing into others lands in an inappropriate manner. The Bible never supported open borders for the Bible says that boundaries were ordained of God. It was the Tower of Babel that promoted an open border system
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If I Had To Leave My Country To Make A Living In Another,\nI ABSOLUTELY WOULD NOT Immigrate To The Other Country ILLEGALLY...\nI Would Take The Right Steps To Enter That Country In A LEGAL And ORDERLY Manner And NOT BREAK The LAWS Of That Nation\nI Would File The REQUIRED PAPERWORK And Make CERTAIN That ALL My Actions Were SUPERVISED By That Nations Government Until They GRANTED Me CITIZENSHIP LEGALLY\nI Would NOT Work In Another Country UNDOCUMENTED And Become A BURDEN To The TAXPAYERS Of That Nation\nWe KNOW Why There Are Immigrants In America Today\nBut We CANNOT ALLOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION To BURDEN Our Economy Any Longer\nWe have both the RIGHT and the MORAL OBLIGATION To STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION In Its Tracks\n\nHeres A Question For You\nIf We Allow ALL THE MEXICANS(I Mean EVERY LAST ONE OF EM )\nIn Here (Because We KNOW They All Want A Better Life)\nThen What Would Be Left In Mexico??\nA CORRUPT Government With No Citizens??\nA Nation Of NO PEOPLE??\nInstead Of Marching In The Streets Of The US,(Armed With The Flag Of Mexico) Why Arent These People Protesting In Their OWN COUNTRY For BETTER TREATMENT As CITIZENS \nWHY Must The US TAXPAYERS Shoulder The Burden Of A People Oppressed By A Corrupt Government?
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No, you should stay and everybody else as well, but legalized. They are going to stay any way, so why not legalize them.
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it is saying that you can not buy a Gods people as slaves that only the heathen the non-believers the pagans as they are called today can be bought as slaves. read the whole chapter and it will make more sense.
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I believe that Jesus did not put away with any part of the Mosaic law (Read Matthew 5,17-18).\nGentiles however, were never required to keep the law. \nSome of the first believers ( who were mostly Jewish), taught that all Gentile believers should become circumcised and start following the law. Peter (also a Jew) and some others opposed this idea. In the end it was decided that Gentiles need not live according to the law given to the Jewish people. They were given four rules by which they should live. These rules were not commandments given by God however, that's why Christians today don't live by them. You can read all this in Acts, chapter 15.\nFor Christians there is basically no law as such. They are to love God with all their hearts and their neighbors as they love themselves. By following these two commandments, we will keep from sinning. Paul says in his letter to the Romans that we become slaves to righteousness. \nI believe that for Jews (even for those who believe in Jesus), the law still applies.
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I know the Bible has this to say about aliens:\n\nExodus 22:21 (NIV)\n\n"Do not mistreat an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in Egypt.\n\n\nExodus 23:9 (NIV)\n\n 9 "Do not oppress an alien; you yourselves know how it feels to be aliens, because you were aliens in Egypt.\n\n\nLeviticus 19:10 (NIV)\n\nDo not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.\n\n\nLeviticus 19:33 (NIV)\n\nWhen an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him.\n\n\nA lot of people try to argue that this means LEGAL aliens but there was no such thing as LEGAL or ILLEGAL aliens back in that time.  It just mean ALIENS.  PERIOD.
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I's amnesty plain and simple.  They are being allowed to stay by the millions.  Soon they will overrun every State.  Thank God Tennessee where I live is not overrun by illegals.  The government is not enforcing it's own laws against illegal immigration, so they're making new amnesty laws because there are too many millions to send back to Mexico...)(
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The illegal immigrants should be kicked out.  The US, again, is being picked on.  If you look at what Mexico does to its' illegal immigrant, we are too lenient on those illegal ones who wish to live in our country reap the benefits of the country, schools etc. and not be obligated to put for it.  The President propose that those illegal immigrant should have IDs to be counted for, yet they don't want it,because they want to work here getting paid under the table, and send the money they make outside of the country.\nIn Mexico Illegal immigrants are imprisoned for 2 years, it is considered a felony. The US! those illegal immigrants are escorted out, where they can come back again and again, just like a boomerang. Why shouldn't we treat them as they treat their own illegal immigrates, but we don't, and still we are being picked on.\nIt is a melting pot for the legal ones not the illegals.
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Hippie,\n\nI agree with you.\n\nTo all the others...you're idealists...there's nothing wrong with that, but some of you are pretty naive.\n\nThe ILLEGALS are called that because they BROKE LAWS to get here.  This is a sovreign nation with laws.  We have a system set up for folks who want to immigrate to this country, for all its faults.  \n\nFirst and foremost, why would I want someone here who has no respect for the laws established in this country, who willingly usurps established procedures for THEIR benefit?\nYou think these criminals (you break laws, do it WILLINGLY without remorse, you're a criminal) are here because they are benevolent, to take shite jobs "no one else wants"?\n\nPlease.\n\nI can't blame folks for wanting to establish themselves in the U.S.  I love my country for all her beauty and for the opportunities available to ALL her citizens.  Saying that, folks should respect the laws and rules established, just like anyone anyplace else demands that THEIR laws are respected and followed.  These folks here illegally are not to be made citizens, nor should their actions be pardoned...they are criminals who not only do not respect our laws and way of life, they make a mockery of it all by staying here, living as parasites by leeching off of already strained social and health programs set up for tax-paying U.S. citizens. \n\nThis notion that Americans are unreasonable for wanting others to respect and follow the laws of this nation is ludicrous...shame on all of you who thinks less of those who would send ALL illegals back, in order to protect OUR best interests.  Oh yeah, by the way, yes, I am willing to pay a quarter more for a head of lettuce if it would mean that a bona-fide citizen would be the one harvesting it from the fields.\n\nADDED 4/15/06:\n\nBonesofaTeacher,\n\nWhy should US citizens have more rights than others? \n\nWe have a constitution that protects our rights.  This was done after the English were ousted, at the tip of a sword.  We had forefathers who CARED about the direction of the new country they founded, and they, along with much of the population of this new country, decided that FREEDOM was worth fighting, and dying for.\n\nFolks in other countries, especially those who are under the rule of totalitarian governments, live at the whim of a dictator...until the population decides they deserve better (and they do), and DO something about their situation, they will continue to live that way.\n\n\nWhy should you get special priviledges (citizenship rights) just for being born here? \n\nI was not born here (in the U.S.).  My father was (deceased now) a U.S. citizen living abroad when I was born.  He went through the procedures in place at the State Dept. at the time to ensure my citizenship was secure.  The U.S. is a beautiful, special country that a LOT of folks want to immigrate to, but economics and other considerations says that the U.S. cannot take all that wants in...that's just the way it is.  To be fair, every developed country has laws limiting the numbers of folks coming into their country...why are you speaking like the U.S. is being evil for enforcing laws every other country has?\n\nWhy should you get rights that other people don't get?\n\nBecause I am a citizen of this country, did my part to ensure that she stays the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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King James Bible:  Psalms 37:29  The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.\n\nModern Translation:  29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth,\nAnd they will reside forever upon it.\n\nI grew up in the Church of Christ, they teach that approved persons go to Heaven, bad people go to Hell, if what they say is true, then no one is left on the Earth, and King David told us a lie.\n\nThis one scripture is what caused me to start studying the Bible, and what a large amount of Bible knowledge have I consumed.
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Criminals are those who encroach on other people rights, like stealing, beating etc., illegal immigrants are not criminals and they just over stay because of one reason or other, some have families, some find friends.\n\nThe world belongs to GOD no man should put boundries on others to go from place to place, how do you think we advanced so much in technology and other things, until recently anybody could go anywhere, how do you think, America got settlled, who would have come to Amercia in those old days. Now America is the first country stopping free movement of people. I dont understand this.