BOULDER, Colo. — In an open letter published Wednesday as a full-page ad in the Boulder Daily Camera, 63 Colorado pastors and other evangelical leaders call on GOP presidential candidates to craft respectful, solutions-based messages on immigration.
In a key state for 2016, the letter counters harsh rhetoric toward immigrants from some presidential candidates and other political leaders.
“The immigrant community and our community are one and the same,” the letter states. “Together, for several years we have diligently worked to create space to dialogue and learn from one another about how the broken immigration system has affected our communities, keeping us divided. And, we have come to this shared conclusion: Immigrants are vital in our communities, and we must treat them with respect and dignity. Our laws must reflect that conclusion.”
“So many of us feel that we need to do something to stand up to the negativity around the immigration debate,” said Michelle Warren, an Evangelical Immigration Table leader in Colorado.
“We are desperate for a conversation that welcomes immigrants with compassion.”
FULL LETTER - slightly better viewed in link as PDFsole Mennonite signator was Vern Remple.
15 comments:
If they love being amongst third world peoples, why don't they move to Mexico or Somalia or Egypt?
They needed to direct their “disrespectful and uninformed” advice to the radical leftist ignoramuses at CNBC rather than the GOP candidates. I think there is a certain naïve sickness about those who fervently obsess over “global harmony” and that we can all get along together as one big happy family if only [fill in the blank]. Obviously their plea was directed at Donald Trump, the only sane one of the bunch when it comes to immigration reality.
I don’t think anyone has a problem with civilized immigrants who come here legally, learn the language, become Americanized, and give more than they take from society. The problem is the flood of illegals, which includes a substantive share of gangsters and other social misfits that overwhelm the system. Nothing wrong with a candidate wanting to do something about that.
People who show up here illegally are not immigrants in my mind. They are alien invaders. The technical word for those on US soil who are not American citizens, which the IRS uses, is aliens. And those not here legally are, duh, illegal aliens. They simply don’t belong here and should be removed or prevented from coming here in the first place. Then they can get in line behind those who want to come here legally.
To follow the standard definition of 'immigrant' it would seem to me that an immigrant is anyone who migrates from one country to another with the intention of staying permanently. Thus, in this country [as well as many others], there are legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. The political rhetoric runs the gamut from let 'em all in to keep 'em all out. Where's the rational policy? One of the biggest problems in the country is providing free services to healthy non-workers, a very large portion of whom are native US citizens. Add in the free services provided to illegal immigrants, and we have a huge problem. However, it is not insoluble, but the solution is unlikely to come from Washington, since those blokes seem not to be able to do anything. Local governments could address the issue, but it seems as though most politicians rely on the votes of the spuriously entitled to get elected. Entitlements have their place, but something is rotten in Denmark when policy and law incentivize leaching rather than working.
Very well put, DES. Santa Claus is, indeed, a most powerful and successful of political opponents, even though the country is totally, absolutely, irrefutably, irrevocably broke. Doesn't seem to bother anyone at this point, and they won't wake up until the government borrowing well runs dry. Anything that can't go on forever, won't.
Bizzy - I totally agree about the country being broke in the fiscal sense. Somehow some Nobel Laureates in economics [a field where anyone can be an expert] continue to praise the virtues of government debt. Idiots - not to mention any names but Krugman comes to mind :-) That said, I think that you should join me an others who have concerns about the debt, the Fed, etc., in backing Bernie!!!!
DES, surely you jest. Bernie is a socialist/communist, which means he will throttle the economy, or at least try to, while taking us billions upon billions more into debt. Not that establishment Republicans would do any better. Bernie would take us over the cliff at 70 mph. The RINO's, maybe 35 or 40 mph. Lol!
Yes Bizzy, I knew that would push your buttons!! I will vote for the candidate who says that we will stop sending billions of dollars of 'aid' out of this country, and redirect those billions to tending to matters in this country.
The Anglosphere forms the core of Western Civilization. It overwhelmingly has been the hardy lads and lassies of the Anglosphere who have suited up and gone to battle to protect Western Civ from power-hungry monarchs, Fascists, Nazis, Communists, and "religious" totalitarians be they Shintoist or Islamist. These Anglophones also have provided much if not most of Western Civ's economic, moral, intellectual, and creative firepower. White Christian Dudes, especially English-speaking ones--make the best countries and civilizations. The peoples of the world want to live where White Christian Dudes (WCD) hold sway. When that core is weak, then Western Civ ain't in good shape. When that core is absent in the struggle to save that civilization, the barbarians win. We are facing a new age of barbarianism and our leaders talk about global warming and the need not to insult the people who are out to destroy us.
SFB - you conclude that Western Civilization is superior to any other - might be a lot of folks out there that would not agree :-)
I agree, hoosier. My comment was for the benefit of those who would disagree. That's why I signed it SBF (S*** For Brains), because that's what the utopian socialists and Islamists would call me. Lol! Actually, those who would not agree that the white Christian built and held Western Civilization together would think of me as much worse, such as a racist and dastardly white supremacist.
Should have done a little proofreading. Maybe I really am SFB. Lol!
I guess the Muslims in Paris don't take too kindly to Western Civ.
Just read a great comment, apparently available as T-shirt and bumper sticker:
"If your religion is worth killing for, please start with yourself."
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