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Now that Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed by masked, untrained, roided-up federal agents on a quest to get their quota of “dangerous criminals” off our streets without due process, it seems the issue is finally on everyone’s radar. If it’s not yet on yours, I urge you to get it there by doing …
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You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.Deuteronomy 10:19 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.Leviticus 19:34 ‘Cursed …
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I believe in Almighty God, who guided the people in exile and in exodus, the God of Joseph in Egypt and Daniel in Babylon, the God of foreigners and immigrants. I believe in Jesus Christ, a displaced Galilean, who was born away from his people and his home, who fled his country with his parents …
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Did you know that in 1911 a Senator Dillingham reported to congress that “certain kinds of criminality are inherent in the Italian race” and that “the high rate of illiteracy among the new immigrants was due to inherent racial tendencies”? Or that once the railroad was finished, so was our country finished with the Chinese …
Warning: This post contains some harsh words which may be suitable for some who call themselves Evangelicals. The share of those who say they think undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of the U.S. (Survey of 5,352 U.S. adults conducted Aug. 16 to Sept. 4, 2024 by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute) To all non-Christians, …
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