tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-738015707983587606.post3802955703897896831..comments2023-09-23T06:41:49.369-06:00Comments on Turning the Tide...: Kudos to Arizona, You are standing up to your rights!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986635883342034311noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-738015707983587606.post-76140845071902329272010-05-07T10:12:43.850-06:002010-05-07T10:12:43.850-06:00I read this several days ago and pondered it.
I&#...I read this several days ago and pondered it.<br /><br />I'm not American. I'm Canadian and looking at this from an outside perspective.<br /><br />I understand your anger. Yes, illegal immigrants are a drain on American resources, I get that. Yes, many are criminals (according to you the great majority) and of course you don't want foreign criminal activity in your country, you grow enough of your own.<br /><br />My problem, bearing in mind the lovely previous post of yours that bore your testimony of Christ, is where is He in all this.<br /><br />You brought up not wanting to educate the children of these illegals. Why? Have the children done something wrong to deserve your contempt? Isn't it simply a case of you won the lottery of being born in the U.S. a land of plenty, and they weren't? For some reason that we don't completely understand, some people are born to family who have much and live in a nation where they can succeed and others are not.<br /><br />When Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan, the Samaritan didn't ask the beaten man his nationality before helping him. He just helped, and he didn't complain about the cost nor the inconvenience, nor how much a strain it was on him.<br /><br />I suspect that many illegal aliens are not out to take away from you. <br /><br />I was in Mexico and was blessed to go into the home of a 15 year old that was helping to support his family. They were lovely people and very welcoming even though we didn't speak their language. They lived in a one room hut with a cement floor and no running water or electricity.<br /><br />I am sure that many Mexican people look across the border and see a land of plenty and either they don't know how to immigrate, or they can't afford the fees of a passport and paperwork, or they don't meet the criteria of having an education or family on the other side, become desperate to provide a better life for their family. A life that they know they can never achieve with their few pesos a day. It's not as easy to legally get into your country as it was when your ancestors did it.<br /><br />So lets say you live in a country where you know you can't succeed, and you want more for your children, what do you do?<br /><br />Have you ever talked to an illegal alien? Have you spoken to the women and found out what kind of life they've had?<br /><br />You are truly blessed to live where you do. That was not your decision nor anything that you earned. It was blessed upon you. God gave that to you, and for what purpose? Was it to look down on others who are not so blessed?<br /><br />I'm having trouble marrying the image of a woman who testifies of Christ in one post and then in the other that she doesn't want to educate or provide health care for children because of who their parents are.<br /><br />Perhaps you should give the same criteria to the American children of criminals? If your father commits a crime then you don't deserve to have an education or see a doctor.<br /><br />It sounds ridiculous put that way, but isn't that what you're advocating?<br /><br />I'm not trying to pass judgement on you, but on the other hand, you have called people morons who disagree with you. <br /><br />I would like to see a post on how you can be Christ like and hate illegal aliens at the same time. Maybe you don't hate, it's just what I'm getting from your posts that seem to be filled with anger. I'm just trying to find the connection. I'm assuming that because you blogged you are open to discussion and possibly open to a difference of opinion.<br /><br />It just seems to me that if Heavenly Father blesses you with so much, he expects much from you. All that He gives you isn't so much to be given to you, it's to be shared because ultimately everything is His. Are you sitting down at His table to enjoy His feast and refusing to sit by others or turning them away?<br /><br />Perhaps there's an answer to the problem that includes love.Anna Maria Junushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14589846694967185982noreply@blogger.com