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Not the requirement I'm referring to as you know Im sure.
The OT verses are for those who enter a country legally.
It is not biblical to violate a law to achieve a possible “good.”
Gods word teaches to obey the laws of the land. Rom 13.
If you don't like a law, then do everything legally within your power to get the law changed.
Until then, it is a law and should be obeyed.
An inconvenient truth. Be blessed.
I know its hard to understand what " Love" really means when Jesus Christ of Nazareth speaks of it.

Matthew 25:35, 40: "For I was a stranger and you welcomed me...Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
 
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how many people are here illegally and how long have they been here?
The last administration created such chaos that they couldn't even track the children that were in their care, to protect them from child predators.

Up to 323,000 Migrant Children Missing in US, DHS Watchdog Finds

Aug 22, 2024The Biden-Harris administration has lost track of more than 320,000 migrant children who crossed the border without parents

All that we can do is estimate the damage done by the previous Administration.
 
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No special treatment. Just a program that eventually gets them vetted and either on a pathway to full citizenship or deportation if they don’t meet certain criteria. Things like having and holding a job, a clean background, a family, spouse or kids who were born here. Basically if they’re an upstanding citizen in every way except for their legal status then we should give them a pathway to citizenship.
Again, that pathway already exists. Criminals attempt to bypass it.
No. There’s no law that says they have to be as cruel as they’re going about it now.
Do you view enforcing the law as cruel?
 
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No. There’s no law that says they have to be as cruel as they’re going about it now.
Enforcing the law is not cruel. It's compassionate.
 
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The last administration created such chaos that they couldn't even track the children that were in their care, to protect them from child predators.

Up to 323,000 Migrant Children Missing in US, DHS Watchdog Finds

Aug 22, 2024The Biden-Harris administration has lost track of more than 320,000 migrant children who crossed the border without parents

All that we can do is estimate the damage done by the previous Administration.
That known misleading number is not what I asked. But the response does kind of answer my question.
 
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We have laws to protect against cruelty. Those are enforced too.
Indeed. That’s why there are legal challenges being filed against this administration for how they’re conducting their enforcement operations.
 
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Happy to point out that Jesus Christ of Nazareth confirmed this in the new testament. Im affraid you're just not going to be able to get around it, " Love".

Matthew 25:35, 40:
"For I was a stranger and you welcomed me...Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
That doesn't answer my questions.

Your conflation of words does not constitute a confirmation.

Let's look at verse of your premise (specifically the word גר) in the Greek LXX:

Strong's Greek: 4339 προσήλυτος (proselutos) - proselyte

Strong's Definitions pros-ay'-loo-tos; from the alternate of (4334) (προσέρχομαι); an arriver from a foreign region, i.e. (special) an acceder (convert) to Judaism ("proselyte"): — proselyte.

Now let's look at the word in the verse that is being conflated with your premise.

ξενος G3581

So I ask again; do you understand what a גר is?

I ask again does Yah call us to follow the law?

(CLV) Hb 1:9
Thou lovest righteousness (kept THE LAW) and hatest injustice (disregard for THE LAW) ; Therefore Thou art anointed by The God, (tou theou) (YHWH), Thy God, with the oil of exultation beyond Thy partners."
 
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Indeed. That’s why there are legal challenges being filed against this administration for how they’re conducting their enforcement operations.
Partisan theatrics and stalling tactics.

The courts keep shooting these frivolous cases down,

The American people are delighted with this Administration's enforcement of the law.
 
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The American people are delighted with this Administration's enforcement of the law.
Polling of the American people says otherwise.
 
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Note: Even God has an entrance requirement. No one will be able to get into Heaven without meeting that requirement.

Are you ok with millions of illegal entrants the Biden administration let in during his 4 yr term...or should they be deported?
If the usa deported everyone, there'd be no sinners in the usa, eh? Think a minute on this - God does not deport anyone from the new heavens or the new earth ! He simply does not ever let them in, whom He has not invited in. God's "politics" (as if, or so-called) is not at all like sinful man's politics, right?
 
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Polling of the American people says otherwise.
All that we can do is estimate the damage done by the previous Administration.
Mankind, according to all Scripture, i.e. man's carnal society (i.e. society since the 1st century for context) is and has been doing damage (death and destruction) daily.
Depends how you enforce it.

Enforcing the law is not cruel. It's compassionate.

It can be.
 
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Polling of the American people says otherwise.
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Democracy wins.
 
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Biden was not letting people come in illegally. Did he open the asylum process allowing groups like Haitians, Ukrainians, Cubans, and Venezuelans in LEGALLY? yes. Trump did the same thing with (whites only) South Afrikaners. Too many people confuse border encounters, which is an event, as meaning the number of people let in illegally. They are two differing things. Jesus was a displaced immigrant.
"Biden was not letting people come in illegally."
Yes he did, by the millions.
Jesus Christ was not a displaced immigrant :laughing:
 
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I’m not in favor of illegal immigration. That said, people who’ve been living and working here for at least a decade without a criminal record should be given a pathway to citizenship.

None of this however, justifies this current administration’s cruel, inhumane and deplorable approach to immigration enforcement.
This post is about what happened in the last 4 years in the Biden administration.
As to the conditions, the ones Obama had people in in his detention centers in the top picture are worse than what the current administration has going...
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I know its hard to understand what " Love" really means when Jesus Christ of Nazareth speaks of it.

Matthew 25:35, 40: "For I was a stranger and you welcomed me...Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
It's not hard at all.
The type of love matters and twisting scripture to fit a narrative isn't what God wants people to do.
 
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