NO ROOM IN AMERICA'S INN FOR IMMIGRANTS HERE ILLEGALLY

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NO ROOM IN AMERICA'S INN FOR IMMIGRANTS HERE ILLEGALLY
Wed Dec 26, 6:50 PM ET

The politics of the Grand Old Party's ultraconservative religionists produce the oddest cognitive dissonance. This campaign season has illuminated the jarring contrast between the public piety of conservative Christians -- a significant faction in the Republican Party -- and their intense anger toward illegal immigrants.


That hostility is all the more jarring at Christmastime, when Christians around the world commemorate the birth of Christ. You'd think that the season would bring forth an outpouring of compassion, mercy and generosity. After all, the Bible, which conservative Christians hold out as the inerrant word of God, includes several admonitions to practice kindness toward "strangers."

But kindness doesn't seem to be much in the minds of Bible-thumping conservatives. Sadie Fields, head of the Georgia Christian Alliance, has long criticized public benefits such as health care for the children of illegal immigrants. "We're against illegal immigrants because we must uphold the rule of law," she has said. "We are a nation of law. Our biblical worldview mandates that we be a people of law."

According to polls, immigration is a much more important issue among Republican voters than among Democrats. That's especially true in early voting states such as Iowa and South Carolina, where sizable pockets of illegal immigrants have settled only in the last decade or so. ...........

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. "We are a nation of law"

From a repuke, no less. They sure love the law when it beats up on those melaninally-blessed folks. For themselves? Not so much.

Man, the repukes have more nuts in them than a Clark Bar.

[flashl]

2. Of course, reality doesn't matter but ...

The undocumented hesitate to enter a less-alluring U.S.

Lorenzo Martinez, an illegal immigrant who has lived in Los Angeles for six years, has a message for his kin in Mexico's Hidalgo state: Stay put.

The steady construction work that had allowed him to send home as much as $1,000 a month in recent years had disappeared. The 36-year-old father of four said desperation was growing among the day laborers with whom he was competing for odd jobs.

Sporadic employment isn't the half of it. Martinez said anxiety also was running high among undocumented workers about stepped-up workplace raids, deportations and increasing demands by U.S. employers for proof that they were in the country legally.

"Better not to come," Martinez said of anyone thinking about crossing into the U.S. illegally. "The situation is really bad."

That message seems to be getting through. There are numerous signs of a slowdown in illegal immigration.

DU Post - Immigration problem solved

[silverojo]

3. It's not a conservative issue

It's an American issue. There are plenty of Independents and Dems like myself who simply ask that people come here legally, instead of sneaking in and "cutting in line" in front of those who come here through the normal means.

Nobody's telling these people that they can't come here. We're only asking that they abide by the laws of this country when they do.

It's not so much to ask, really. After all, our forebears did just that when they came here (unless you're one of the rare folks descended from the people on the Mayflower...or unless they were among the Africans cruelly brought here against their will).

[robcon]

4. Illegal means they came in illegally.

Change the laws if you don't like them. But there is no room in America for those who broke the laws to get here.