In Houston, toys for needy kids may come with immigration checks

[AlphaCentauri]

Some Houston charities are checking the immigration status of children and their parents before giving them Christmas toys, the Houston Chronicle reports.

The paper found that several organizations — including the Salvation Army — are asking for birth certificates, photo ID, school enrollment or Social Security cards for children, or proof that parents are citizens, legal immigrants or working to become legal residents. Many also require proof of income.

"It's not our desire to turn anyone down," said Lorugene Young, whose Outreach Program Inc. distributes toys collected by firefighters. "Those kids are not responsible if they are here illegally. It is the parents' responsibility."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2009/12/in-houston-toys-for-needy-kids-may-come-with-immigration-check/1

[niyad]

1. so much for charity--and yet another reason NOT to contribute to salvation army

[izquierdista]

2. I can understand that

Those non-Aryan kids don't celebrate Christmas anyway, do they?

[Lyric]

4. You forgot the Sarcasm tag.

At least I hope you did.

[izquierdista]

9. I delegate that

Since you volunteered, you can check my other posts as well. :hi:

[TwilightGardener]

3. Really, now...they're going to deny toys to poor little Mexican kids, for what gain?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. The orgasmic pleasure of meanness towards the less powerful.

It's very addictive.

[snagglepuss]

10. Bingo. nt

[FedUpWithIt All]

6. Disgusting.

Some people need to read the "Word" of their faith.

1 John 3:17-18 (New International Version)

17If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 18Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

Deuteronomy 14:28-29

At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns, so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Leviticus 23:22

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.


Edited to add for the benefit of the Christian organizations which are refusing needy little children a little joy...

"For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.”

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:2

[marmar]

7. This is terrible......

.... Clearly if you're an undocumented resident, you are somehow less than human.

:argh:

Sick shite.

[Gormy Cuss]

8. PSA: Do not read the comments at the link

What a nasty, paranoid bunch of Scrooges.

[Tanuki]

11. Have they forgotten that Jesus' early years were spent as a refugee

in Egypt, where Mary and Joseph had fled to escape King Herod's slaughter of baby boys? I doubt that they would have had "birth certificates, photo ID, school enrollment or Social Security cards for children, or proof that parents are citizens, legal immigrants or working to become legal residents."