Nation’s Borders

Every nation discriminates. Every nation has its idea of who they want as citizens. Every nation will therefore seek to discourage certain types of people from coming into its borders. So, how do we make sure the “right” people immigrate to America?

The answer is not to give the government more control. When governments become socialist (like ours), they will try to attract people who also want socialism. The more control the government has over immigration, the more effective they will be at ensuring that only socialism-loving people will be allowed in.

This is something that Conservatives don’t seem to understand. They want to give more and more power to our socialist government to enforce who comes into our country and who doesn’t. For example, most Conservatives are in favor of the Clinton-Obama border wall. I call it the Clinton-Obama border wall, because Hillary and Barack both voted to fund the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border when they were senators. Sure, they pretended to be against the wall when President Trump was building it, but they’re not as opposed to it as they let on. Like other Communists, they want to have tight control over who comes and goes. Karl Marx even included the idea of strict government control over emigration in his Ten Planks of Communism (“immigration” refers to those coming into your country, “emigration” refers to those leaving your country). It’s no wonder, then, that the communist East Germans built the Berlin Wall to keep people from leaving.

America’s Founders, on the other hand, didn’t give the national government a lot of power over immigration. They wanted limited government in all areas, including in relation to people’s migrations. The Kentucky Resolves of 1798 (drafted by Thomas Jefferson) warned that governments often pass laws directed at “the friendless alien” first, but will eventually use similar laws against its citizens (see Resolve IX). Heed his warning: the laws that pertain to immigrants will likely be used against you one day. Be very careful in giving governments power in any area, including immigration and emigration.

As I’m writing this, a Canadian pastor who was arrested for holding a church service was prevented from leaving his country to speak at a conference that I was attending. Why? The ultimate reason was that he didn’t bow down to their tyranny. Our government isn’t much friendlier to Christians than Canada’s is. Soon, we will be held hostage by our own country simply for not bowing down to our tyrants. At that point, there will be no escape.

All of this is to say that more government control is not a good way to make sure the right people come to America. I’m not saying that the government should have no laws concerning immigration, but there are others ways of encouraging the “right” people to come here. Here’s a couple of ideas for attracting the “right” people to our shores, while still maintaining some freedoms:

1. Get rid of socialism. People complain that immigrants who come to America mooch off of “the system” (getting free stuff from the government). This is a valid complaint. However, the solution isn’t giving more power to the government. The solution is getting rid of the “system” that many immigrants mooch off of. In the Bible, it’s not the government’s role to provide free stuff to the people (citizens or foreigners).

If Americans would stop voting for socialist politicians (which includes all Democrats and about 99% of Republicans), immigrants couldn’t mooch off of the system. If there is no system to mooch off of, the moochers wouldn’t want to come to America. The only immigrants who would want to come would be the ones who just wanted a chance to work hard to provide for their families. Those are the “right” kind of people. Having a more biblical government would solve the mooching problem.

2. Have Bible-based laws. While we do want to maintain freedoms, the freedom to do violence to others is not the kind of freedom I’m referring to. Another complaint I hear about immigrants is that there are murderers, rapists, and sex traffickers coming across the border. This is also true (though the majority aren’t violent criminals).

But again, the solution isn’t giving the government more power to control people’s migrations. The solution is to have a more biblical government. While there are some immigrants who are involved in murder, rape, and sex trafficking, so are some Americans! Even if no foreigner was allowed in our country, these crimes would still happen. The answer then is to adequately punish those who commit these crimes. It is true that some immigrants who commit these crimes are let go with little or no punishment. However, the same often happens to American citizens who do these evil things.

In the Bible, the main job of the government is to punish evildoers (Rom. 13:1-4). The punishment for murder and rape is the death penalty (Exo. 21:12; Deut. 22:25-26). Furthermore, anyone who kidnaps someone and sells them into slavery (including sex-slavery) would also get the death penalty (Exo. 21:16).

If God’s laws were enforced against these crimes, immigrants who want to commit them would stay as far away from America as they could! So again, the only people who would want to come to America would be those who wanted to behave, and those are the people we want to come to our shores.

I realize there’s more to the immigration debate than can be covered in this short article (like terrorists coming over the border, etc). But when it comes to many of our immigration problems, the main fault is that our nation doesn’t obey the Bible. If there was no socialist system to take advantage of, we wouldn’t have immigrants taking advantage it! If we had laws that were in line with the Bible, those guilty of heinous crimes would actually be punished!

In short, a country that disobeys the Bible will attract immigrants who disobey the Bible. A country that reveres and obeys God will attract immigrants that are willing to do the same.