A Scriptural Solution to the "Immigration Problem"

Hoover & Ike did it.

I didn't know of this until Allen Leach pointed it out to me: Back during
the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of
all illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens
that desperately needed work.

And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 1.3 million
Mexican nationals so that American WWII and Korean veterans had a better chance at jobs. The program was called "Operation Wetback." It took 2 years, but they deported them. Now, if they could deport the illegals back then, they can sure do it today! If you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself. I did. It's there! Why don't we remember this stuff? Or haven't those responsible for our "institutional memory" reminded us?

But I recently came across a much more unique solution to the "immigration problem" suggested by Keith Drury, Associate Professor of Religion at Indiana Wesleyan University. Since its a Scriptural solution, I like it even better--especially since it takes into account the one great factor Ike and Herbert didn't face. In fact, all the current "conservative" chatter on this topic misses this point too--even the s0-called "Christian" chatterboxes. This solution isn't for the faint of heart.

"Since 1973 the USA has aborted some 49 million Americans. Forty nine million lives snuffed out before birth. This was morally wrong but abortion also has huge economic consequences. Just think of the economic influence today of 49 million up-to-33-year-olds building homes, having children, buying stuff and paying taxes that would put Social Security on a firm basis for the next 50 years! Yet America killed off these 49 million fellow Americans.

So that’s the solution to the “immigration problem.” We should replace those dead children with immigrants. If we wanted “America for Americans” we should have let our own children be born. We killed 49 million of our own kids so we ought to replace that vanished generation with 49 million immigrants. It would be at least partial restitution for our national sin.

There are about 12 million “illegal immigrants” already here, so I think we should start restitution by offering every one of them a path to citizenship. If they all became citizens that would replace about a quarter of our own kids we eliminated. Next we can then figure out how to replace the remaining 75% of the American lives we snuffed out.

It’s a simple solution—a life for a life…"

Maranatha!