It's Monday, June 10, 2024. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. The issue of immigration as a

moral issue is a worldview issue. It's very much a part of our conversation as

Christians. As a political conversation it's even more explosive.

And there's a documented way of looking at this.

If you were to go back, say to the 2020 presidential election,

there were two different visions of immigration in terms of an American

perspective and you had the two nominees of the respective parties the

Republican nominee the then incumbent president Donald Trump, his Democratic challenger

former vice president Joe Biden, they really represented two very

different approaches to immigration. As a matter of fact, a part of what Biden ran on against

President Trump was the criticism of his immigration policy. The

accusation was that it was immoral, that it wasn't fitting with the American tradition of welcoming the foreigner,

that it was implicitly racist, and any number of other criticisms that were made, and you had Joe Biden in the Democratic Party basically

in a very pro-immigration perspective and you know this comes right down to some

policies that were advocated and so you have policies that the Democratic Party are at least many in the Democratic Party and generally

both of those categories by the way who have been pressing for such things as a

route to citizenship for those who are here undocumented

and without legal status in the United States.

And there has been a reluctance on the part of the Democratic Party to do anything meaningful about controlling

the borders of the United States of America and most particularly the southern border

with Mexico.

And I think everyone listening to me right now understands that is a huge

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