Be kind to immigrants

I know this was so last week. I'm a bit slow on things.

Sitting in Sunday school last week an interesting topic came up for Sunday school, immigration, after reading 2 Nephi Chapter 1. Many of the older (70+) crowd started complaining about the "Latinos" taking over the country, breaking laws and all sorts of other things. After a few minutes of this another older man spoke up and pointed to these verses:

2 Nephi Chapter 1
6 Wherefore, I, Lehi, prophesy according to the workings of the Spirit which is in me, that there shall none come into this land save they shall be brought by the hand of the Lord.
7 Wherefore, this a land is consecrated unto him whom he shall bring. And if it so be that they shall serve him according to the commandments which he hath given, it shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down into captivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; for if iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes, but unto the righteous it shall be blessed forever.

This cooled things off a bit.

When a General Authority comes out and suggest to a mainly LDS legislature to "slow down, step back and carefully study and assess the implications and human costs involved" you would think that the LDS members of the legislature would give heed. Instead they have justified
their actions and question why the church doesn't just come out with a clearer statement.


My favorite argument
"is ok to brake some laws?" "Will I get an ecclesiastical pass for breaking other laws or is only immigration law declared invalid?"
"Honor, obey, and sustain the law, but only if you're a legal LDS U.S. resident. If you're illegal, then the bishop can give you a wink and validate your fraudulent perjury-plagued status."


The Trib comment section is full of these. Which makes no sense to me other then all the anti-mormons are also anti-immigrant?

Maybe the legislature should draw up a resolution calling for Congress to address the real underlying issues of immigration. Why are all of these people coming here? Leaving their homes, safety, family to travel across a desert to a strange land with the possibility of dying on the way. When they get here they work any job they can get (watch "Fast Food Nation") working for next to nothing only to send the money home. Non of this makes sense unless where they come from is so bad in the first place. Maybe if we work on fixing the issues that cause them to leave we wouldn't have so many immigrants here to worry about.

The Utah lawmakers should make it easier for those who are here to declare themselves here so that we know who is here and where they are at. Instead they are forcing the immigrants to stay in the shadows and adding more stress to their lives.