Mark's wordy but weak defense of out-of-control illegal immigration is defenseless.  It sounds like a desperate defense attorney trying to get a not-guilty verdict for a habitual thief caught in the act for the 25th time.

Not even a good lawyer can twist the Bible, history, or the Constitution to deny American citizens the right to control immigration.

The word "stranger" in Hebrew does not refer to hordes of one country flowing into an adjacent country, with terrorists and drug dealers among them, for the purpose of robbing the host citizens of billions of dollars worth of benefits and demanding full citizen rights, some addicting their children, or some even wanting to destroy our cities, while rebelliously waving the flag of their country of origin.  What we have now in America is an abomination and to tolerate it is national suicide.

According to the Strong's Enhanced Lexicon, the word "stranger" in Hebrew (ger or geyr) means "(1) a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights, or (2) of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights." 

Modern-day illegal aliens do not want to be temporary, and it is a relevant fact that they lack inherited rights, although they are trying to get them.  They also want "conceded" rights, and we have a right not to concede them if we feel like their vast numbers and motivations are overwhelming to our social systems and dangerous to our safety.

There is nothing wrong with immigration, but it should be limited, systematic, and controlled.  It should not be unlimited, uncontrolled hordes.  There is nothing in the Bible to dictate otherwise.  Our biblical obligation is to love and be kind to illegals, but that does not mean
condoning lawlessness.

Jim