I wonder how Christians who prefer the war of the current US government against immigrants can reconcile their attitude Leviticus 19:34He reads (King James -version):
But the stranger who lives with you will be you as someone born among you, and you will love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Would they answer that the Bible is only epic poetry? Or are they cinos – only Christians in name?
An endearing feature of the Catholic Church, which was the only Christian church for 15 centuries, was universalism – globalism as we would say today. This function, as well as the spiritual message, provided crowds of poor and exploited people, most of the population on earth, with the ability to feel that they were elsewhere, just like culture in his learned feeling is a way to be elsewhere.
American history is full of testimonies of the openness of this country. Hector Saint John de Crèvecoeur Was a Frenchman (original name: Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crèvecoeur) who emigrated to Colonial America in early 1760. In the chapter “What is an American” of his famous Letters from an American farmer (1782) Celebrating America, he wrote:
We know, in the right way, no strangers; This is everyone’s country.
Despite my classic-liberal attraction for universalism, I also share the arguments of Friedrich Hayek and James Buchanan against completely free immigration: it could endanger the maintenance of a free society at a certain point or level. My position of June 19, 2018, “immigration: A Confession and A Value Judgement”, offers a skeleton of this kind of argument.
This argument against completely free immigration is what Alex Nowrasteh and Benjamin Powel “call” the new economic case against immigration “in their book from 2021 Miserable waste? They claim that it has no empirical support. Regarding the argument that an immigrant who comes and in America and in America imposes a net costs on ‘society’, it is of course economically invalid: if it was valid, we must also blame a woman or a student who decides to become a member of the labor market.
My most important point is that the treatment of immigrants, especially very recent, tribal, irrational and “on-American” has become-in the extent that we can understand the last qualification in contrast to the ideal of a free society. The treatment of immigrants has also become contrary to the rule of law and increasingly barbaric. There can be no acceptable ideology and no free society without human decency.
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Hector Saint John de Crèvecoeur on his farm, viewed by Dall-e