President Biden issues “Proclamation on Securing the Border”: What the Bible says about illegal immigration
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 7 June 2024
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Summary
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at reducing the influx of illegal immigrants and getting the southern border under some semblance of control. While debate continues surrounding its approach and what it will accomplish, the more pertinent question for us today is how God would have us respond. So what does the Bible say about illegal immigration and how should we think and act on this issue?
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| 0:00.0 | Good day. It's Friday, June the 7th, 2024, and this is the Daily Article Podcast. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:15.4 | Earlier this week, President Biden issued an executive order aimed at reducing the influx of illegal immigrants |
| 0:22.6 | and getting the southern border under some semblance of control. |
| 0:26.6 | It mirrors elements of former President Trump's approach to the border, |
| 0:29.6 | while also including several of the same stipulations from the legislation |
| 0:33.6 | that failed to pass the House of Representatives back in February. |
| 0:36.6 | The contents of the White House's official proclamation were fairly partisan in nature and of questionable veracity at several points, |
| 0:44.3 | but that's become par for the course on both sides of the political aisle in recent years. |
| 0:49.3 | As such, what the executive order actually does is of far greater importance than how it was described. |
| 0:56.4 | The new policy closes the border between legal ports of entry to non-citizens and allows |
| 1:01.8 | custom and border protection agents to send migrants back before they can make an asylum claim |
| 1:07.8 | when the average number of encounters at the southern border exceeds 2,500 in a |
| 1:13.2 | single day. This approach should close the loophole in the asylum system. Many have exploited as the |
| 1:19.7 | vast majority of encounters occur between legal ports of entry. There, migrants cross the border |
| 1:25.8 | and wait for arrest before claiming asylum. Once they do, |
| 1:29.9 | most are given a court date, one typically several years in the future, and released. Under the new |
| 1:36.2 | system, they would be sent back without receiving that opportunity. The border would not reopen, |
| 1:42.1 | allowing migrants to claim asylum once again until two weeks after the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that the seven-day average of encounters at the border is under 1,500. |
| 1:53.8 | Recent numbers have been sufficiently high, ensuring the proclamation went into effect at 1201 a.m. on Wednesday, given that the seven-day average |
| 2:03.2 | has not fallen below 1,500 encounters since President Biden took office, much of the border |
| 2:09.0 | is effectively closed for the foreseeable future. However, migrants who use the CBP1 app to book |
| 2:16.1 | an appointment with officials can still apply for asylum. Unaccompanied |
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