Christian Democrats in the United States
Domestic Issues - Immigration We support the sanctity of human life and a realistic immigration policy. Like it or not, the United States needs immigrants as laborers and as a source of new culture. We support rational policies like a guest worker/return program that embrace the reality of the immigrant population and bring their vision of the American dream back into the legal realm. If this were done, Homeland Security could focus on catching the people who are coming here illegally for reasons other than work.We support harsher penalties for human traffickers who neglect or bring harm to people trying to cross the border. We oppose a border wall as being heavy-handed and expensive, but we do support enhancement of the border surveillance network with innovations like robotic solar airplanes and a garrison tower network. Threats to U.S. security through our borders must be taken seriously by all Americans, but they are not an excuse to destroy our culture and our values of freedom.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
12:22 PM
* Lev. 19:33-34: "When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God."
* Num. 15:15: "The community is to have the same rules for you and for the alien living among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the alien shall be the same before the LORD."
* Deut. 24:17: "Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge."
* Zech. 7:10: "Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not think evil of each other."
Thanks to Christina at http://www.freewebs.com/christiandemocrats/theissuesandnews.htm for these passages above.
And also:
* Jeremiah 22:3: "Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place."
* Ezek. 22:7: "In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow."
* Mal. 3:5: "I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.
* Eph 2:19 "For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone."
loving the alien
* Lev. 19:9-10: "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. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God."* Lev. 19:33-34: "When an alien lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God."
* Num. 15:15: "The community is to have the same rules for you and for the alien living among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the alien shall be the same before the LORD."
* Deut. 24:17: "Do not deprive the alien or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge."
* Zech. 7:10: "Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not think evil of each other."
Thanks to Christina at http://www.freewebs.com/christiandemocrats/theissuesandnews.htm for these passages above.
And also:
* Jeremiah 22:3: "Thus says Yahweh: Execute you justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place."
* Ezek. 22:7: "In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow."
* Mal. 3:5: "I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.
* Eph 2:19 "For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone."
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Friday, May 11, 2007
9:05 AM
America should not feel comfortable putting children into jail. America should be revolted that we put children of illegal immigrants in jail when they have not even done anything wrong by their own wills.
This is one point where G.W. Bush accomplished something, re-uniting all border and immigration enforcement under Homeland Security. When that happened, administrators were allowed to go into INS prisons and found the disgusting treatment of children in these jails.
No matter what your position on immigration is, if you think children should be treated like criminals, you're a crazy psycho. We should support and enhance all measures to ensure children caught up in the immigration system are treated with respect as human beings and given care and education without separating them from their parents.
children caught in the net
There is a tendency to view everyone outside of one's group as non-human to reinforce group cohesion. This happens in wars, sports games, and especially in prisons.America should not feel comfortable putting children into jail. America should be revolted that we put children of illegal immigrants in jail when they have not even done anything wrong by their own wills.
This is one point where G.W. Bush accomplished something, re-uniting all border and immigration enforcement under Homeland Security. When that happened, administrators were allowed to go into INS prisons and found the disgusting treatment of children in these jails.
No matter what your position on immigration is, if you think children should be treated like criminals, you're a crazy psycho. We should support and enhance all measures to ensure children caught up in the immigration system are treated with respect as human beings and given care and education without separating them from their parents.
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8:44 AM
For example, if all the towers had a solar power system, a program could develop small electric helicopters to fly between towers examining any signs of people moving back and forth. (Infrared is hard in the desert where it is hot, but that doesn't mean it's impossible or valueless, or that other technologies like visual tracking will not come along.)
Hey, they don't have to be robots, the people in the nice solar air-conditioned towers can fly those puppies around remotely within their tower range. Sure gets hot out there.
The key is making a meshed network of these towers through the border region, not just a line of them along the border itself. Then cars and trucks coming to pick people up could be tagged by these surveillance drones if there are not enough border agents to get there in time. That takes imminent domain to use private lands. But a tower and an access road would not impact any rancher's use of their land to any significant degree.
Personally, a border fence makes me feel trapped in a giant U.S. prison as much as it keeps people out. I don't want to live in that kind of world.
modular surveillance towers and future innovation
If the border were protected by this network of surveillance towers, new technology programs could be developed to integrate with it as these innovations are independently developed.For example, if all the towers had a solar power system, a program could develop small electric helicopters to fly between towers examining any signs of people moving back and forth. (Infrared is hard in the desert where it is hot, but that doesn't mean it's impossible or valueless, or that other technologies like visual tracking will not come along.)
Hey, they don't have to be robots, the people in the nice solar air-conditioned towers can fly those puppies around remotely within their tower range. Sure gets hot out there.
The key is making a meshed network of these towers through the border region, not just a line of them along the border itself. Then cars and trucks coming to pick people up could be tagged by these surveillance drones if there are not enough border agents to get there in time. That takes imminent domain to use private lands. But a tower and an access road would not impact any rancher's use of their land to any significant degree.
Personally, a border fence makes me feel trapped in a giant U.S. prison as much as it keeps people out. I don't want to live in that kind of world.
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
5:24 PM
When Julius Caesar needed to secure a large area of the fronteir in the gallic wars, he didn't build a fence. He constructed dispersed garrison towers that were easy to construct where a small contingent could hole up. It wasn't the towers that secured the line, it was the constant flow of troops and equipment patrolling in both directions between them at unpredictable times. This was the same approach used in the invasion of Baghdad, and it works. One point might fail, but the system covers those failures.
Construct towers along the border within line of sight of each other. Use imminent domain to construct these in private ranchlands along border territory as well. Implement automated and remote technology to scan the land between towers for people walking between them, but also station border agents in the towers and patrolling between them on rotating, unpredictable schedules.
Work smart and we can make the border work. The approach of a border wall is unpopular, impractical, and projects a negative image. A network of garrison towers combined with aerial surveillance might do the trick.
But a guest worker program for people who come here to work would make it a lot easier to catch terrorists trying to catch the border no matter what security system is put in place.
smarter border strategy from julius caesar
A border fence is a mis-use of resources for the strategic benefit it would provide.When Julius Caesar needed to secure a large area of the fronteir in the gallic wars, he didn't build a fence. He constructed dispersed garrison towers that were easy to construct where a small contingent could hole up. It wasn't the towers that secured the line, it was the constant flow of troops and equipment patrolling in both directions between them at unpredictable times. This was the same approach used in the invasion of Baghdad, and it works. One point might fail, but the system covers those failures.
Construct towers along the border within line of sight of each other. Use imminent domain to construct these in private ranchlands along border territory as well. Implement automated and remote technology to scan the land between towers for people walking between them, but also station border agents in the towers and patrolling between them on rotating, unpredictable schedules.
Work smart and we can make the border work. The approach of a border wall is unpopular, impractical, and projects a negative image. A network of garrison towers combined with aerial surveillance might do the trick.
But a guest worker program for people who come here to work would make it a lot easier to catch terrorists trying to catch the border no matter what security system is put in place.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007
3:44 PM
If anyone wants to wear a garment that signifies their personal religious principles, they should feel free to do so, but children and adults should be able to make these decisions independently of their parents and spouses, when they want to grow up and learn how to dress themselves.
funny hats and that sexy arab veil
We do not believe anyone is damned for violating rules of fashion. Fashists!If anyone wants to wear a garment that signifies their personal religious principles, they should feel free to do so, but children and adults should be able to make these decisions independently of their parents and spouses, when they want to grow up and learn how to dress themselves.
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
5:59 PM
We support the sanctity of human life and a realistic immigration policy.
Like it or not, the United States needs immigrants as laborers and as a
source of new culture. We support rational policies like a guest worker/return
program that embrace the reality of the immigrant population and bring
their vision of the American dream back into the legal realm. If this
were done, Homeland Security could focus on catching the people who are
coming here illegally for reasons other than work.
Immigration
We support the sanctity of human life and a realistic immigration policy.
Like it or not, the United States needs immigrants as laborers and as a
source of new culture. We support rational policies like a guest worker/return
program that embrace the reality of the immigrant population and bring
their vision of the American dream back into the legal realm. If this
were done, Homeland Security could focus on catching the people who are
coming here illegally for reasons other than work.
We support harsher penalties for human traffickers who neglect or bring
harm to people trying to cross the border. We oppose a border wall as
being heavy-handed and expensive, but we do support enhancement of
the border surveillance network with innovations like robotic solar
airplanes and a garrison tower network. Threats to U.S. security through our borders must be taken
seriously by all Americans, but they are not an excuse to destroy
our culture and our values of freedom.
> detail, links and comments >>
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