Tuesday, July 2, 2019

It hasn't changed.

Photo Credit-Toyo Miyatake, Manzanar, 1943
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 regulating the majority of Japanese Americans
into internment camps. This is a picture taken at Manzanar in Yolo County, California. If you have ever been to what is left of it, it is located in a desolate desert region of the state. In the course of it's existence, 11,070 people passed through it's gates. This does not include the camps in other States that incarcerated approximately 120,000 innocent people.
Meanwhile, the Germans and Italians in America were free to walk the streets unhindered while the leaders in their countries of ancestry were perpetuating murder on an unprecedented level .
While it may not be a huge number, 6% of undocumented workers were from Canada and Europe*. And these people are not not out working in the fields making your vegetables and fruits affordable in the sweltering sun doing backbreaking labor or cleaning the hotel room you and your friends destroyed and didn't even leave a dollar tip. In all fairness, why are only the people with browner skin being targeted? Why aren't the undocumented Canadians and Europeans having their children ripped from them? Why aren't they drinking out toilets up near the Canadian border, wrapped in aluminum blankets? If you are going to target these people who escaped from grinding poverty, gangs and violence, to make a living in a land hostile to their very existence, why not be fair and give the same treatment to everyone?
However, none of this is right, especially when the Bible tells me 

Leviticus 19:34(NIV) 34- The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Let's be honest- Leviticus is being used to condemn gay men, and all manner of others, but suddenly, this is only about Israel in ancient times? Are the 10 commandments and the Psalms of David also irrelevant? If you are going by the inerrancy of Scripture, this is here. It says what it says. It is not a suggestion.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigrant_population_of_the_United_States


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