Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris and I'm here with John Stone Street to answer your worldview questions. These questions were sparked by breakpoint commentaries, short courses, or the Colson Fellows program. If you'd like to ask a question of your own, all you have to do is send us an email at ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org.

Well, John, our first question today has to do with immigration. And I can't remember the last

time we actually talked about this issue, perhaps because it's one of those where it doesn't

break down precisely on a left-right axis, at least not in my experience. There's kind of those who are much more

pro-immigration and those who are much more sort of leery of the whole idea of open borders

and so forth. It's also not obvious in my experience what the Christian worldview take on this

is supposed to be. I mean, there are attempts, of course, to apply Old Testament passages,

for instance, to the whole issue of immigration

into the United States. But I'm sure we'll have some criticisms of that straightforward sort

of correlation between the U.S. and the Old Testament Israel. So I'm just going to read the

question here and we can talk about the worldview implications of this idea of immigration, especially

in light of a declining or stagnating population.

This person writes in, I'm a Christian conservative, at the risk of sounding like a leftist,

why can't we just increase the number of immigrants or immigrant families coming to the U.S. to make up for the shortfall in births?

There are plenty of destitute families whose children could be the future here.

It appears the problem is not supply, but distribution.

This is a troubling question.

I've never heard it addressed by conservative public policy experts.

Yeah, it's a great question.

I mean, I think there's a couple things to think about.

First of all, in terms of immigration policy itself, I mean, that's a pragmatic concern, having to do with the current

state of national security, having to do with the strength of national identity. All of that plays

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