The Outrage over Family Separations at the Border Exposes our Deeper Problem

The current public outcry about families being separated at the border (not a new problem by any means as the Flores Consent Decree was enacted in 1997 when Bill Clinton was president and expanded under Obama's administration) seems at the heart to be a question of how to best balance justice and mercy.  How do we open our borders to fleeing refugees and hurting families who want to assimilate and build up our country without letting in those who seek to destroy us?  How do we process families quickly while making sure that children are entering with their actual parents instead of child traffickers or those using them as golden tickets only to be abandoned later?  How do we discern between the real refugees and the posers?  How do we make the path to citizenship simple and affordable without that path being manipulated by drug lords, terrorists, violent gangs, and serial criminals? How do we convince immigrants to come here legally and inform those seeking asylum about the no cost refugee pass that gets them inside the border safely and legally instead of encouraging them to put themselves and the minors with them at great risk by coming here illegally?  What do we do with children of criminals whose families will not claim them or fail to show up in court? If our family could not even board a plane for a domestic flight without our diapered baby being violated for a diaper search by TSA agents while the rest of us endured the humiliation of body scans and pat downs because of the horrific acts of a few who have nothing in common with us, how can we expect our border agents and government officials to figure out the best way to balance justice, mercy, and national security when so many people, including drug dealers and human traffickers, are crossing our borders illegally each day?

Only God has ever achieved that perfect balance between justice and mercy (Isaiah 30:18, Hosea 2:19), but He calls us to seek both as well (Zechariah 7: 8-14, Matthew 23:23).  How can we expect to appropriately deliver justice and compassion with wisdom when our nation has forsaken God and His precepts?  We should be crying out to Him for help in resolving these issues and studying the Bible which provides the wisdom we need, but we have kicked God out of our schools, governments, and marketplaces. The new social order persecutes, bullies, and files lawsuits against those who dare to live out and defend the Christian faith in their daily lives. Yet, a brief review of world history indicates that anti-Christian, atheistic governments not only lead us in the opposite direction from justice and mercy, but they are usually connected to ruthless, tyrannical, murderous regimes. "Atheism was an integral part tenant of Marxist-Lennism/Maoist/Stalinism communism....which caused the death of approximately 110,286,000 people between 1917-1987." (Source)  Consider also the dire consequences of forced secularization of Soviet Russia, China, and North Korea.

Planned Parenthood Federation condemns this separation of children from their parents while lobbying nonstop for the right (with government funding) to rip children out of their mother’s womb without the father’s or grandparents' consent and often with the mother's consent which is only obtained by coercion or from her pimp. Often Planned Parenthood will then sell the baby body parts for profit.  Our nation’s judges have legalized this barbaric practice of child sacrifice and dismemberment while Congress continues to fund it and while the courts choose to ignore the fact that body parts are sold illegally.  Planned Parenthood also chooses to look the other way when their clients have been abused or when their payers are pimps, pedophiles, and traffickers instead of reporting the inhumane, illegal activity to the authorities, so it continues unabated. Where is the justice or mercy in any of that?  How genuine is their outrage over families being separated temporarily during due diligence and legal proceedings following illegal entrance into the USA while they separate children from their parents permanently by killing the children in the most painful, violent way possible? Is Planned Parenthood afraid the increased protections at the border will curb their revenue stream?

There is also public outcry over our nation’s history of slavery, yet many of the same people upset over black slavery dismiss or ignore human trafficking, which is the most prolific and vile form of slavery that continues in record numbers to this day! Trafficking of both women and children into sexual slavery is largely aided by illegal immigration and Planned Parenthood!

We express great condemnation for racism while the culture continues to praise Planned Parenthood, whose founder was a racist eugenicist (she sought to exterminate "inferior" non-Anglo races) whose writings largely influenced Hitler’s extermination protocols. Planned Parenthood still targets minority communities with abortion having reduced the black population by over 16 million people since 1973. There are at least 36% fewer black Americans today because of abortion, not counting the children those 16 million could have birthed.

Darwin’s theory of evolution and survival of the fittest led to the common notion that some people are much more valuable than others.  Darwin's utterly flawed theory, with mathematically impossible odds no matter how old people pretend the earth may be and with countless holes requiring constant modification to the theory to account for contradictions as new evidence against it continues to be found (whereas the Creation account has never ever needed revision, for God's word is always true), was what helped slave owners justify their mistreatment of slaves. Darwin’s theories convinced slave that they were superior and that their convenience justified their mistreatment of African Americans.  That same logic is used every day by Planned Parenthood to convince women to prioritize their convenience over their innocent child's right to life.

It took Biblical truth, religious faith that instilled great courage, and a bloody war to finally overcome such misguided and evil thinking regarding slavery and to finally put an end to the Democrats’ slavery practices. Yet, Darwinian theories are still presented, taught, and even preached in schools across our nation from kindergarten through post graduate schools as if they were proven facts.

The truth is that all human life is sacred, made in the image of God.  From the womb to the tomb, no matter which nation, tribe, or tongue that life may represent, human life is infinitely valuable.  While everyone may have a different set of gifts and a unique purpose, no life is any less precious than any other.  Some people need education, training, discipline, and justice before they can assimilate into American society without destroying it, but all are valuable.  The family unit is also sacred, ordained by God from the beginning for the good of society. The family should be protected and preserved unless a family is corrupted by abuse which harms those within it.  Until we collectively uphold the sanctity of human life and the sacredness of the traditional family consistently in our hearts and in our public policy across all issues, regardless of political implications, we will continue to fail in our efforts to preserve justice and mercy.  Our nation's deeper problem is an abandonment of God and these core values.  We have traded the truth for a lie. (Romans 1:25) We must turn back to God and to His absolute truth.  

13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. (Ephesians 4:13-16)

Let us seek Him for wisdom instead of pointing fingers, feigning outrage for political purposes, or simply trying to figure this out on our own without acknowledging the deep rooted hypocrisy within our own hearts. Let us recognize how our confusion and hypocrisy escalates when we allow our firm foundation of moral truth to be supplanted by the new social order being pushed upon us by secular progressives with little resistance from the family of faith.

America needs God desperately, so let those of us who have chosen to follow Him not forget to turn to Him first for wisdom in all these issues and to seek His righteousness, justice, and mercy in every area of life and policy.  May we uphold His precepts and fight for what is true, just, and right. May we courageously stand against abortion, human trafficking, and unjust treatment of immigrants.  Let us seek Biblical solutions for crisis pregnancy situations, orphans in need of families, the afflicted and poor in need of safety, shelter, and employment, and our many border problems in ways that preserve justice and offer compassion for the best long term interests of all. Let us never stop praying for our nation, for America is the only real hope for freedom and refuge left on this planet.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8)

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Addendum:
I am not suggesting that we abandon our freedom of religion and force everyone to become Christians.  Forced belief is not genuine or life-changing, so forcing any belief system on someone not only flies in the face of the freedoms America was founded upon that our heroes fought and died to preserve, but it also goes against the entire foundation of Christianity. God wants a genuine, authentic relationship with us that comes by choice. If He just wanted autonomous robots who serve Him, he never would have given us free will, and there never would have been a fall in the garden which brought sin into the world.

I am advocating that believers stop giving way to fear and stand up in defense of our freedom of religion which was established to preserve our freedom to live out our faith without government interference.  We have to stop accepting the progressive distortion of the founding fathers' intent.  They want us to believe that we should have "freedom from religion", which is to suggest that the government should stop any attempts to practice religion in the public square. That false notion is being pushed into law by the ACLU and other heavily funded extremist groups. 

Perspectives on the Immigration Debate for a Country Set Apart

Call me a fool if you wish, but I am not convinced Trump used the language he was accused of when speaking of Haiti or other suffering nations because the accusation was made by one who has repeatedly lied about similar types of conversations before, because others in the room testified to not hearing him say it, and because he denied it. However, given remarks he has made in the past, I can certainly understand why people would believe that he said it. I find the remark repulsive if he said it, but I do not see it as a racist attack on the natives of those countries at all. The people who live there are beautiful, intelligent, gifted, and infinitely valuable, made in the image of God. We are no better than they are, and Trump has said as much when speaking of the dignity and sacredness of ALL mankind.

But their countries ARE cesspools, not because of the color of their people's skin or on anything the general population has done, but rather, based on what a few corrupt elite government officials have done to their good people and to their beautiful land.

America is (or was established to be) different. The Constitution sets up plenty of checks on power to ensure that we don't get to that point. Of course, those checks assume that those elected into office possess similar values, morality, and common sense as those upon which our nation was founded.

Books have been written about the many uncanny similarities between the U.S. and Israel and how their history is playing out again in the U.S. to the precise detail. Thus, it is instructive to look at Israel's history so we can learn from their good choices and from their mistakes. It is wise to look at the laws God gave Israel to sustain, grow, and preserve their nation as a nation under Yahweh, set apart for Him. Foreigners were welcomed by individuals in that culture with tremendous hospitality, and we in America, especially those of us who follow Christ, are each personally responsible for providing for those in need and for welcoming our guests with great hospitality and friendship, regardless of our guest's country of origin or citizenship status. The Lord clearly commanded them not to oppress "strangers" (legal immigrants) in their land*.  All human life has dignity and deserves respect. But from a national policy perspective, God instructed foreigners who lived in Israel to assimilate and to follow many of their laws. God gave His chosen nation many protective restrictions to prevent them from becoming like the surrounding nations. They were to be set apart and to be a light and a blessing to all the world. That blessing was part of God's covenant to Abraham.

Similarly, the U.S. was established on Judeo-Christian values, as a nation set apart "for God's glory and the advancement of the Christian faith" (Mayflower Compact), to be a light of freedom and blessing for the entire world, to uphold the truth "that all men are created equal", and to preserve each person's God given "unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." (Declaration of Independence)

Sadly, there are people around the world with a very different worldview who do not share our values. They hate America, the liberty she offers, and her people. They rape our people and our prosperity while mocking us mercilessly. They come here not to assimilate, contribute, nor build up, but rather to overthrow, to disrespect and disobey our laws, to torture, and to destroy.

While there may be plenty of good motives driving individuals who advocate for full amnesty, the DNC's political strategy on immigration isn't based on love or compassion for the foreigner at all, but rather on self-interest. They want to let in anyone and everyone, without concern over what those people will take from us or do to us, because they expect their loose immigration platform to buy these immigrants' votes and the votes of all their descendants for many generations. Such a strategy is actually far more disrespectful than common sense immigration laws because it assumes these immigrants are uneducated, illiterate, and too lazy or unable to think through policy issues and ramifications of each platform logically, critically, and morally for themselves or for the greater common good. It lowers immigrants to the position of "useful idiots" instead of valuing them as equals.

Interestingly, some of the brightest, most articulate, most thoughtful, and most patriotic people I know are legal immigrants who oppose everything the DNC represents, and they are fighting for improved vetting (as opposed to chain migration and unsystematic lotteries) because they don't want America to turn into the same type of cesspool, controlled by greedy tyrants, which they fled. The DNC doesn't care. They just want more votes, so they can have more power. But the other side in this debate loves America, and they love all the diverse and/or hurting people around the world. They want freedom loving people of any ethnicity to always have a place to run to for safety, liberty, truth, hope, and the opportunity to become all the good Lord calls them to be. If America gives into these progressive demands, there will be nowhere else to run.

Here is just one example taken from Andrew Klavan's well written article, "Of Crudeness and Truth" showing what we will become if we cave to leftist ideology and sacrifice our identity as a nation set apart for truth, justice, and liberty:

"In England, in the city of Rotherham, at least 1,400 non-Muslim girls, some as young as 11, were brutally raped by Muslim immigrants over a period of years in the 2000s. Police and other officials worked to keep the facts hidden because, according to multiple reports, they were afraid of being called racist. Think about that: police officers did not want to seem racist, so they stood by and let their city’s children be raped. The same thing goes on in other cities in England and throughout Europe. And in fact, some who have spoken out have had their careers curtailed by manufactured scandal. The message is clear: it’s just not nice to tell the truth. It’s just not done. Don’t do it."

*For a more complete Biblical analysis of this issue, I recommend:

•  What the Bible Says About Illegal Immigration
• The Use and Abuse of hte Bible in the Immigration Debate