You gotta fight for your right to migrate. Then Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s remarkable promise to fight for the right of everyone in the whole world to migrate to the US is what first prompted me to write this series beginning in June 2018.
“Mexican Presidential Candidate Calls Mass Migration to US a ‘Human Right,’ ” ran the Daily Caller’s headline on June 22, 2018.
No sooner had I finished reading this remarkable statement than I realized that I’d soon be writing my second extended series on immigration.
It may seem to some that Lux Lucet has become an immigration blog, what with the subject occupying such a large portion of my posts over the past two and a half years. My first series, Immigration, Citizenship and the Bible, took me nearly a year-and-a-half to write and represented my first extended effort on the subject of immigration.
So why, after spending all that time and energy completing on extended immigration series, did I start another one less than six months later? There are several reasons.
First, immigration is a fascinating topic, one that incorporates a number of my favorite fields of study. It’s part politics, part economics, part philosophy and part theology. What’s not to like?
Second, it’s a critically important topic. Parents, at least wise one’s, naturally want to pass their heritage to their children and to see them prosper in the way. In Deuteronomy, we see this expressed in the saying that the Lord keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love him. Likewise, we’re told in Proverbs that a good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. Fathers are encouraged to raise their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, and children to obey their father and mother. But if current trends continue in the US and in Western Europe, it may well be that in a few decades not a few of these nations will cease to exist in anything like their historic form. There may be a France and a Germany and a United States, but these could well be just legacy place names only, with the actual peoples that historically occupied those places and their cultures being largely or entirely wiped out. The destruction of one’s heritage is not a blessing, but a sign of God’s curse. If the public policies pursued by the leaders of a nation and its people result, not in prosperity for their posterity, but in their destruction, it is reasonable to conclude that those policies are contrary to the law of God and must be repented of.
Third, immigration is one of the most poorly understood topics. If one is to prevent the destruction of one’s society, one first must understand why his society is being destroyed. But discussions of immigration policy, being prone as they are to emotional outbursts, are, for that reason, not always fruitful. I’ve heard Daniel McAdams, a former Congressional staffer for Ron Paul and Dr. Paul’s current co-host on the Liberty Report, say that immigration was his least favorite topic because of the extreme positions taken by various sides on the issue. For this reason, it’s important to find a way to talk about immigration in a way that focuses on ideas and not on people.
Fourth, immigration is a major weapon on the Roman Church-State’s arsenal for imposing an updated version of the Holy Roman Empire, not on Europe only, but on the whole world. Call it scalable tyranny if you will. It is imperative to understand the danger of Rome’s immigration gambit, yet most Americans are clueless about this. Former White House Chief Political Strategist Steve Bannon, himself a Roman Catholic, understands, at least in part, why Rome pushes immigration so hard. According to him, “unable to really come to grips with the problems in the Church, they need illegal aliens, they need illegal aliens to fill the churches. It’s obvious on the face of it…They have an economic interest. They have an economic interest in unlimited immigration, unlimited illegal immigration.
Fifth, Protestants, who should be at the forefront of the immigration debate, generally are missing in action. Either they avoid the subject out of fear or ignorance, or, when they do discuss it, they show themselves the intellectual thralls of Antichrist. Instead of going to the Scriptures to understand the mind of God on immigration, they instead are satisfied with repeating the tired and unbiblical arguments of the Roman Church-State, tricking it out in Evangelical garb to sell Rome’s nonsense to the unsuspecting sheep.
Sixth, immigration is a topic tailor made for Scripturalists. Scripturalism, the Christian system of thought developed by Gordon Clark and John Robbins, holds that the Bible has a systematic monopoly on truth. If Americans are to solve the knotty problem of immigration, they will not do so by turning to secular economists or political theorists. They must turn to the Word of God and seek his mind on the matter. It has been the goal of this author to begin the process of applying Scripturalist thought to the critical issue of immigration policy.
