It's Monday, January 29, 2024.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. The issue of border policy,

immigration, naturalization, migration, all of this is now swirling around us and there is no

doubt that this is an inevitable issue that must be

faced by this nation and even as Congress has dither and been basically deadlocked

on any action for a matter of decades, the reality is that as a nation we

are losing control of our borders and globally we face a massive migration crisis.

All of this demands some Christian thinking. But in order to understand the scale of what we're looking at,

we just need to understand that right now,

something like 10,000 people a day,

some days more, are coming across the American border,

and this is particularly the southern border

although these days the crisis on the northern border is becoming apparent as well.

And these are people coming into the United States without permission and thus they are not wrongly described as illegal entrance into the United States.

That's not the wrong category.

Every nation as a nation, just by the definition of being a nation has borders and has a right to police those borders.

Indeed, it can be argued that the nation has the responsibility to do that.

Even as you look at the most basic issue of citizenship and this goes

back to Israel it goes back to Rome. Paul acknowledges this when he cites his

Roman citizenship. There is a categorical distinction between having citizenship in a nation and not having that citizenship.

Now you can look at this very simplistically and simply say borders are arbitrary and there is no reason gospel-minded people should be

concerned about borders. But that is actually not an argument that is

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