ICE Came to Take Their Neighbor. They Said No.
It's great to see a community come together to protect their neighbors.
It's great to see a community come together to protect their neighbors.
ICE Came to Take Their Neighbor. They Said No.
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Hi SM,
I absolutely agree that a family that has been living in a neighborhood peacefully for fourteen years doesn't deserve or need to be hauled off in handcuffs. ICE would have been better off to send them a court appearance notice that they could have gotten an attorney to represent them and handled this case in a much more peaceful manner.
I have no problem with deporting criminals, and when I say criminals I'm not talking about those whose only crime is that they have come here without the proper documentation. There was a day, 70-80 years ago, that people from all over the world just walked in the front door. We even put up a sign encouraging them to come. Those people didn't have to 'apply for citizenship'. They just got off of whatever ship they had come on and stood in line to show ID and to sign a register proclaiming who they were and where they were from and they walked right on into NYC.
Apparently in the mid 1800's when Emma Lazarus wrote the sonnet that is found on the statue of Liberty today, the nation thought it a poem worthy of being emblazoned upon the great statue. For years, immigrants from all over the world have entered the U.S. sailing right by those heartfelt words of a nation that held itself up as a beacon of hope to the world.
Today, we want to turn that beacon off. No the nation isn't near 'full'. We are just, as Paul declared, becoming people who are selfish and greedy. Lovers of ourselves rather than lovers of others.
There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
God bless,
In Christ, ted
I absolutely agree that a family that has been living in a neighborhood peacefully for fourteen years doesn't deserve or need to be hauled off in handcuffs. ICE would have been better off to send them a court appearance notice that they could have gotten an attorney to represent them and handled this case in a much more peaceful manner.
I have no problem with deporting criminals, and when I say criminals I'm not talking about those whose only crime is that they have come here without the proper documentation. There was a day, 70-80 years ago, that people from all over the world just walked in the front door. We even put up a sign encouraging them to come. Those people didn't have to 'apply for citizenship'. They just got off of whatever ship they had come on and stood in line to show ID and to sign a register proclaiming who they were and where they were from and they walked right on into NYC.
Apparently in the mid 1800's when Emma Lazarus wrote the sonnet that is found on the statue of Liberty today, the nation thought it a poem worthy of being emblazoned upon the great statue. For years, immigrants from all over the world have entered the U.S. sailing right by those heartfelt words of a nation that held itself up as a beacon of hope to the world.
Today, we want to turn that beacon off. No the nation isn't near 'full'. We are just, as Paul declared, becoming people who are selfish and greedy. Lovers of ourselves rather than lovers of others.
There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
God bless,
In Christ, ted
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ICE Came to Take Their Neighbor. They Said No.
It's great to see a community come together to protect their neighbors.
Amen.
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My grandparents retired to a rural farming community that's voted Republican faithfully ever since the South made the party switch 50 yrs back or so. It's also a community that's survived on account of migrants. Many of them came here illegally. Or they came here legally to work at places like Donald's golf courses, then stayed. They are good folks. They do backbreaking work out in the sun all day long. They have nice houses they keep all neat and clean, they have kids who've got their manners. Learn to speak English. They pay taxes. A lot of the folks there who voted for Trump assumed that ICE would be going after the gangs. The ones with arrest records. That's what Obama had done. He deported more immigrants than anybody before him but he just focused on the ones who'd been arrested.
The community has come together to protect some of the folks vulnerable to being deported. One lady had taken sanctuary in a church, then found out government was fining churches fortunes for that so she got scared she'd cause them problems and left. She was the lady that fed the farmers. She set up a stand every day.
It's definitely hit farmers hard. That whole trade war nonsense Donald started with China kicked them hard. Now they've got folks who are afraid to leave the house, go to work. They can't find anybody else willing to do the jobs right. It's a long hard path to get citizenship, a decade or longer. Lots of folks are on that path but not all the way down it yet.
The community has come together to protect some of the folks vulnerable to being deported. One lady had taken sanctuary in a church, then found out government was fining churches fortunes for that so she got scared she'd cause them problems and left. She was the lady that fed the farmers. She set up a stand every day.
It's definitely hit farmers hard. That whole trade war nonsense Donald started with China kicked them hard. Now they've got folks who are afraid to leave the house, go to work. They can't find anybody else willing to do the jobs right. It's a long hard path to get citizenship, a decade or longer. Lots of folks are on that path but not all the way down it yet.
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