See, God is a little bit busy these days. If you hadn’t heard, a lot of children have been making their way to Merika these days, fleeing, you know, violence. Although nobody seems to talk much about that, the violence that is.
A vocal if hopefully small herd of mean people call them “illegals” and scream at the kids, telling them to “go back home”. Some have suggested that a well aimed firearm at the border might do the trick just fine, and no one of course should think they are meaning anything violent by that call to arms.
While not going quite this far, but *nudge nudge, wink wink* maybe they are, a couple of our pious types have ‘splained to us, the spiritually lacking, that this is all part of God’s plan. Brian Fischer, blasphemer-erradicator in charge of American values said thusly:
“Our southern border is there by God’s design. To disregard it, to treat it as if were not there, to regard it as something not worth respecting and defending, is an insult to the God who put it there for our benefit.”
“Yes, Jesus loved children, but he also respected law. He said, render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,” Jeffress clarified for the faithful on Fox News. “So, we need to do both. Show compassion, but secure the borders.”

Just before leaving office, on Dec. 23, 2008, George W. Bush signed into law the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. This bipartisan measure, named for a 19th century British abolitionist, was aimed at extending and beefing up efforts to prevent and prosecute human trafficking and protect the victims of trafficking. More importantly, it described exactly how unaccompanied children crossing the border must be treated.
I have to believe that when you don’t respond in any way that you are either inept or you have some ulterior motive of which you are functioning from,” Perry said during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.”
We in America are again caught in that position we so often find ourselves in–telling the rest of the world how to behave, all the while doing the in-opposite at home. Another shaming moment in the US of A.
I do not know what the answer is to these crises. I really don’t. But I tell you what I do know. We either need to take our borders as seriously as the rest of the world, “no papers, no stay” or we need to be a place of amnesty, “you come, you work, you pay taxes.” We cannot have both. It’s not working.
On children fleeing violence, I can only see one answer: We save the children. We get them to their relatives, we offer them a path to citizenship, and we do what it takes to give them a bright future, because that’s the right thing to do.
No, it is the Left thing to do. The Right want to let them stack up and rot on the outside of our borders.
They won’t even help children. That’s cold!
agreed..:)
no border on earth is secure, and never will be unless we stand shoulder to shoulder along the entire expanse. I see the second option as the best…you work, pay taxes, and stay out of trouble, and in some years (8 or so) you get citizenship. But save the children we must. It’s the only thing to do. the only.
Having been a child welcomed by Merika at the end of WW II… I can’t believe this is the same country anymore. It’s beyond imagining.
I agree, but we have been down this road a few times…We nearly wiped out the Native population, interred Japanese, and have made it very difficult for other minorities over the years. It seems to me you have to be the right complexion basically to be welcomed, and not too weird religiously. Mostly we like western Europeans and not much else…but the Irish would fairly argue that beginning here was might rough…time to get to the real point…HUMAN is HUMAN..
Compassionately securing out borders is no easy task, nor is loving little children so much that we want to send them back to their mommies and daddies (those who haven’t been murdered) as fast as possible.
Lot of high-pocracy going on out there.