The biblical position on illegal immigration

Posted: January 3, 2008 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2008

Many Christians continue to be fooled about what the Bible says about illegal immigration.

Some clerics are adding to the confusion by denouncing efforts to protect our borders, safeguard our citizens and enforce our duly enacted and just laws as some kind of hateful, anti-Christian agenda.

The Rev. Luis Cortes, the founder of Esperanza USA, a group of Christian Hispanic leaders involved in promoting President Bush's failed efforts to promote amnesty attacked all the Republican presidential candidates. He is working with a new group called "Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform."

"They're moving away from a Republican position that they previously held as a party of family values," he said. He singled out Mike Huckabee for special criticism, saying he "started with a biblical position and the minute he moved up in the polls, took a step to the right."

Not surprisingly, none of these Christian leaders cited any Scripture suggesting the Bible approves of lawbreaking, non-enforcement of duly enacted laws or borderless nations.

There's a reason for that.

The Bible clearly and consistently speaks to the opposite agenda.

For the benefit those deluded into the belief that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a God who doesn't respect borders and the rule of law, I have offered two previous Bible studies on the topic of illegal immigration:

A Bible study on illegal immigration

Another Bible study on illegal immigration

It appears it is necessary to explore this topic for a third time.