It’s Christmastime and amidst the joys of the Yuletide celebration, open borders activists try to guilt-trip Americans who support reasonable border policies.
After all, these people say, weren’t the Baby Jesus, Mary, and Joseph refugees or illegal immigrants?
So, American Christian, if you don’t support open borders you are evil. You better repent and get on the open borders bandwagon. Your faith requires it.
As we reported two years ago, “Christmas Nativity Set Up on Border to Promote Invasion Agenda.”
Similar agitprop is circulating this Christmas, as well.
Last week, Axios reported, “Churches turn to Christmas migrant story amid deportation fears.”
The article is written by Russell Contreras, the outlet’s “Justice and Race reporter.”
Here’s what Contreras tells us in the first paragraph: “Some Catholic and evangelical leaders say they will unpack the Holy Family’s immigration plight during Christmas services to offer hope for immigrants worried about what’s coming under President-elect Trump.”
Yeah, I bet they will. It’s 2024, and with all the ‘return of Trump’ and ‘mass deportation’ talk, there is plenty of grist for the mill.
“Trump and his incoming administration are promising immigration raids — even inside churches — as part of their mass deportation plan, and church leaders say that’s already prompting some immigrants to go into hiding,” writes Contreras.
By “immigrants,” Contreras generally means “illegal aliens.” In the next paragraph, he calls them “undocumented immigrants.”
Contreras quotes Gabriel Salguero, president and co-founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition: “What I’m telling people in this advent of Christmas is … Jesus understands you because he lived your reality.”
Justice and Race reporter Contreras refers to the Biblical account of the Holy Family’s escape from King Herod and temporary sojourn in Egypt. (See: Matthew Chapter 2.)
“Latino evangelical churches will be telling attendees at Christmas services to remember Jesus and his family were forced to migrate to Egypt for reasons that they could not control,” Salguero says.
In other words, they are taking the Biblical story about Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and applying it to today’s mass migration. And they plan to do so at Christmas services.
They plan to indoctrinate church members with this propaganda at Christmas services.
Linking the Holy Family’s flight with mass migration has been going on in the Catholic Church at least since 1952. That’s when Pope Pius XII issued Exsul Familia Nazarethana, a papal encyclical (a pastoral letter from the Pope).
In Exsul Familia Nazarethana, Pope Pius XII declared, “The émigré Holy Family of Nazareth, fleeing into Egypt, is the archetype of every refugee family. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all times and all places, the models and protectors of every migrant, alien and refugee of whatever kind who, whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want, is forced to leave his native land, his beloved parents and relatives, his close friends, and to seek a foreign soil.”
The Pope was painting with a very broad brush. Note that the document equates “fear of persecution” with “want,” which refers to lack of money – or poverty, in other words.
If Christians want to help poor people, wouldn’t it be better to help the needy in their own country? After all, American dollars go further that way.
In any case, today’s refugee/asylum processes have become additional ways for ‘migrants’ to get into the U.S. and other wealthy countries.
Back to Axios: “Salguero says the immigrant story is Christ’s story. ‘Our primary call is to love our neighbors and love the immigrant and love the stranger, and we’re going to live that through.’”
Is Salguero implying that if we support immigration law enforcement, we don’t love our neighbors? Sure sounds like it, especially in the current context.
Patriotic American Christians should not fall for this insidious nonsense.
Christian charity is one thing and open borders ideology is quite another.
We shouldn’t confuse the two, even during the Christmas season.