Just Who's Responsible For Them?

       Fortunately it's not required to be a Christian to be an American. But in nearly all religions it's not acceptable to hate children. And as a Christian, you won't find any passage in the bible that tells you to "suffer the children to get out and go home." You will, however, find a passage that says "suffer the little children to come unto me" and then there's the one that says "If a man who was rich enough in this world's goods saw that one of his brothers was in need, but closed his heart to him, how could the love of God be living in him?" And on and on.
       It seems that it's important for politicians to appear to be pious, or at least religious, until it's time to appear to be uncaring and hateful. I'm not quite sure how they're able to tell just when it's time to switch, but it's obvious right now that a good number of politicians have decided it's time to hate little children. But not all little children. Only those from a few Latin American countries. I'm not even sure how you tell those children from many little children who already live in America.
       But maybe that's the whole thing. Maybe the anger is with any young person who isn't lily white. Now I don't mean to suggest all these politicians harbor any racial hatreds. I'm just suggesting that right now, a lot of folks are unhappy that these kids, who in order to escape grave dangers, have come to our towns in our country.
 It could mean that some schools will have an influx of students that will tax their budgets. It may mean that local hospitals and clinics will suddenly have more than they can handle easily. And who's gonna pay for the extra teachers and nurses and doctors, huh? Let's just blockade our highways so these kids can't be brought here. Let's just suffer them to go elsewhere.
       And while we're at it, let's not fix our immigration policies and let's not fund the extra care and courts needed to handle these kids. And even though it's against our laws to just automatically kick them out, let's just kick them out. After all, it's lawlessness in those other countries that's causing the problem, not here in America.