Angel,

You are right that there are few Americans who will take some of the jobs that Mexicans are doing. It wasn't always that way. There was a time when it was easy to find farm labor. Where I grew up farmers used to talk about the summer that they could no longer find workers. The year before a group of government workers came thru and signed people up for welfare and food stamps. The next summer all the farm workers said "I don't need to work, I'm getting a check!"

So the real reason that it is hard to find Americans who will take these jobs is that the government is now paying them NOT to work.

Under the mexican lao's for illegal immigration is a felony, punishable by up to two years in prison. immigrants who are deporte and attempt to re-enter can be sentenced for 10 years. visa violators can be senteced to six-years. mexicans who help illegal immigrants are considered criminals.ane on. so is this a double standard one low for you and oae low for me? is that right.

There’s a really consistent theme in the gospels, and throughout the Bible, and that’s welcoming a stranger, offering a stranger hospitality.
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And illegal aliens are NOT strangers. They are citizens from Mexico who have thugged their way across the border and have committed a good half dozen felonies if they are not living in an apartment anywhere in this country. Further, diddling with the word of the Lord is most certainly an ugly thing to do.

I get a kick out of folks who create laws with an idealized concept of the world in mind. Keeping an immigrant from taking that low-paying job does not mean a citizen will take that low-paying job. What citizen wants to be a carpenter when they see others getting overpaid for something as trivial as acting or singing? How about special pass for that guy/gal who will clean your pool or watch your babies? If your kids won't do it for a pittance why would you expect your unemployed neighbor to take that spot at the bottom of the labor force?

How dare anyone ask any lawmakers to give a Biblical footing for a particular law.
And, any lawmaker who attempts to respond to such a demand with Biblical under-footing should be removed from office.

The laws of Alabama might be site-specific and not be tolerable in other jurisdictions. They are, however, passed by duly elected persons who thoughtfully designed laws to protect their citizens.
Any church which gives comfort to known criminals can claim sanctuary for that individual. Let the court decide what to do with the 'victim.' Further, if a church or denomination is found to be subverting the law of the land by offering sanctuary consistently to people found to be breaking the law, then that denomination can loose its tax-free status and be declared friends of the enemy.

We Americans need to learn to support ourselves, and do so without slaves or "poor immigrant workers" (who will not ever be paid properly and who are kept in the basement level of our standard of living.) Churches and individuals who support the status quo of underpaid workers who break the law to be in the United States are not doing the work of their Founder.

I applaud the politician who avoided giving an unlawful answer the church cleric was demanding. He knows his job: the cleric is a bully, and is ignorant and egocentric.

The crucial fact that a "religious exclusion" to this immigration law might (in fact, DOES) violate the principle of separation of church and state came up way too late in the discussion. No law should allow a religious exclusion. We are getting too comfortable in this country with the idea that people with strong religious beliefs deserve special status under the law.

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