Welcoming the Stranger, the Conservative Christian Way

THIS WEBSITE enjoys a worldwide following, especially in Russia and Italy, for some reason. I had assumed that our readers in the United States included only secular progressives. Oh, contrary! Now newly aware that our readership includes a surprisingly substantial conservative demographic, we resolve to temper our bemused amazement with a renewed determination to address issues which concern American conservatism with enhanced vigor and rigor. We begin with the charged topic of illegal immigration, the general tendency of which is that, the more strident the conservative Christian in professing conservative Christianity, the more zealously the professor loathes, condemns, despises, and advocates for the summary rejection of undocumented immigrants, especially those of color, and the  more staunchly aforementioned conservative Christian defends said loathing with false facts and for contrived and dishonest reasons and piously patriotic justifications. Welcome the stranger, indeed. several years ago the late Rush Limbaugh suggested that all undocumented immigrants, as unwelcomed strangers, be required to pay a fine of five thousand dollars before being provided a green card and a pathway to citizenship. American conservative Christiandom, known for its devotion to El Rushbo, seemingly willing to welcome the stranger only pecuniarily dearly, feel all over itself  in enraptured approval. In reality, an apparently foreign concept to the conservative community of Christ, the only way to fairly balance the monetary balance sheet with immigrants would be to pay each of them a healthy bonus when they break and enter into America. Undocumented immigrants are indeed guilty of an international version of breaking and entering, which is always a prelude to some form of behavior. Anyone who breaks and enters into my house, cleans the carpet, washes dishes, does laundry, feeds the cats, and leaves a sack of gold coins on my night stand before quietly leaving the premises and locking the door on the way out, I welcome. Rob me blind and mug me, you're done. What exactly do immigrants do after they enter the United States? That, to quote Hamlet, is the question. Do they cut in line and hog all the best tables at five star restaurants and exclusive country club memberships? Hardly. Actually, they mow lawns, clean offices, hammer nails, pick fruit, change diapers, pack meat , pluck poultry, and serve cheeseburgers. What they do with considerably less frequency than, say, conservative Christians, is rape, murder, and burglarize. this, according to extensive criminal court records. This is an inconvenient fact for the anti-immigrant conservative crowd. All immigrant labor is vital to, underpaid by, and exploited by America's wealthy classes. Undocumented immigrants annually pay an estimated seven billion more dollars into social security than they take out of it, and one point five billion more into Medicare then they use in Medicare services. Taxes paid by illegal immigrants far exceed the value of the public services used by them, according to the national Academy of sciences. Who, then are the true "illegals"? The Mexican lawn mowers, or the multi millionaire McMansion residents who stiff them out of their hard earned pay, knowing that the workers have no legal recourse, a tried and true Trump tactic? Exhaustive research, study after study shows that, on balance, illegal immigrants do not ow the united States money for coming here, the United States owes them money, a lot of money still unpaid, for being here.