This is a situation from (southern) Italy. The time is the late 19th and early 20th century. Around the time after Marx was known.
You make a great point LNA. The truth is that illegal immigration of folks trying to better themselves by escaping hopeless situations may be made illegal, but such immigration cannot be made evil; at least not in the minds of some decent people that I agree with. Many (but not all) folks who don't grasp or accept this idea have other agenda such as "worrying about the browning of America". Of course, if you call those folks on that stuff, then
you are a no-account, PC commie bastard trying to deny free speech by using your own free speech. That is the entire premise of this ridiculous thread.
This thread isn't really about immigration, but immigration is certainly a good example of what this particular line of argument is about. Namely calling folks commie in response to being called out when expressing positions of debatable, if not questionable, ethical and moral underpinning.
What would Jesus do if he encountered a family of asylum seekers looking for refuge? Is the answer really "turn them over to the Romans?". Is there really no word in the Bible addressing the behavior of nations of folks? Can you come up with questions any more rhetorical than these? Do bears not defecate in the woods?
Edited by NoNukes, : tone down a tiny bit.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Worrying about the "browning of America" is not racism. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000