The Christian Post is no stranger to advocating amnesty. Richard Land, an executive editor and lead columnist at Christian Post, once served as Russell Moore’s predecessor over at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is no stranger to advocating amnesty for illegal aliens, and in response to the disruption of a church service in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Land has once more promoted amnesty as the solution.
I still believe there is a middle ground where we remove all criminal illegal immigrants and allow those who have been here and have been working and obeying our nation’s laws to work toward a pathway to permanent legal status.
We could set up a multi-year process whereby illegal immigrants would come forward and register, pay fines, and undergo a criminal background check. If they pass, they can begin a process whereby they remain lawful inhabitants, pay their taxes, avoid breaking the law, and demonstrate that they have learned to read, write and speak English. They can become permanent legal residents — not citizens. Ineligibility for citizenship is the price they pay for having come here illegally.
I believe a significant majority of Americans would support such an approach, and this would disarm the radicals trying to use the immigration issue to disrupt our country’s freedoms.
Richard Land’s solution, purposefully, upsets America’s demography as the anchor babies of his amnesty proposal would acquire US citizenship under the current practice. Otherwise, it would create a permanent and confusing underclass.
Moreover, Trump ran on mass deportations giving him a popular mandate to carry them out. Liberals would gain an imminent electoral advantage, and Americans would lose their nation, under Richard Land’s proposal.
Whenever someone uses the term appeasement in a historical narrative, one must always take into account the reasonable courses of action at the time. Deporting only the violent invaders will still require the exact ICE raids liberals are rioting against. Richard Land wants to appease the left by giving them their long term goals while leaving nothing on the table for Americans. Land’s appeasement rewards his debased ego, as he will not live to see the consequences of his empathetic folly.
