Report: Four of Every Five Illegal Aliens May Be Christians. So What?

Some people seem to have a very odd idea of what is meant by "equal treatment under the law."

Case in point: A recent report makes a big deal about four out of five illegal aliens, or as the article phrases it, "people at risk of deportation," are Christians.

As many as four in five immigrants at risk of deportation from the United States are Christian, according to a new report that calls on their fellow believers to consider the impact of the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation policies.
The report says about 10 million Christians are vulnerable to deportation and 7 million U.S. citizens who are Christian live in households where someone is at risk of deportation.
The report, under the auspices of major Catholic and evangelical organizations, draws on a range of data, including percentages of religious affiliation in various migrant and national populations and on an advocacy group’s analysis of U.S. census data on migrants.

The obvious response to this is a resounding "So what?" So, 10 million Christians are at risk for deportation. Why?

Because they are in the United States illegally.

Honestly, who wouldn't have thought of this, given a moment or two? A majority of illegal immigrants come from Latin America, and the people of Latin America are overwhelmingly Catholic. But that doesn't matter. The fact - assuming we take it at face value - that 10 million illegal aliens in the United States are Christians doesn't matter. If 10 million illegal aliens in the United States were Buddhists, or Hindu, or worshipped the old Roman gods, that wouldn't matter either.

There's a very simple process here. "Is this person in the United States illegally?" If the answer is "No," fine. If the answer is "Yes," then back they go to where they came from.

Their faith, whatever it is, simply isn't a factor.

“Though we’re deeply concerned about fellow Christians, we’re not exclusively concerned with immigrants who happen to share our faith,” said Matthew Soerens, vice president of advocacy and policy at World Relief, an evangelical humanitarian organization that cosponsored the report.
“As Christians, we believe that all people, regardless of their religious tradition or nationality, are made in God’s image with inherent dignity,” Soerens said in a video statement. But he added that many Christians in the U.S. may not realize that most of those who could be deported share their faith.

Those are all fine, noble sentiments. But they are sentiments that have no place in law enforcement. And no Christians in the U.S. should be concerned that most of those who could be deported share their faith. What they should care about is that our immigration authorities are enforcing the law and not playing favorites.

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What the government does for anyone, it must do for everyone, or it must do for no one.

It seems very likely that the group that put together this report is opposing President Trump's immigration crackdown, and they are trying to stir up sympathy for the people in the United States illegally who, as the article puts it, share their faith. As such, this is a canard. There is no there, there. Nothing in this report should change one iota of the Trump administration's enforcement, and no voter with enough brains to pound sand should be taken in by this open appeal to emotion.

But none of that matters. Not a bit. In matters such as this, matters of law, the law is the only thing that matters. The Trump administration, quite unlike the previous administration, is enforcing the law. That means if you're in the country illegally, you are going to be sent home. Yes, known troublemakers and criminals are getting sent back first. But that's a prioritization effort, not religious discrimination.

Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

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