While millions of White, American Black, African, Korean and multiracial congregations get together in their churches to worship on Sunday morning  all across the USA, to learn about God, how they should know God and deal with sin in their lives, the same is also true for Hispanic congregations as well.

Although all Christians strive to live a godly life and avoid sin with God’s help, there is something that you won’t hear on a Sunday morning at a Spanish speaking service: The decision to return to their country and stop breaking the law that brought them here in the first place.   I bet you’re thinking, “All these Hispanics that are Christians came here illegally?” Well not all but most. 

Consider the demographics of Hispanic Pentecostal, Baptist and Catholic churches. These church attendees are usually not the wealthiest otherwise they would be able to pay their fees and come here legally. I am not saying we shouldn’t consider some reform. But we all know the law, let’s obey it. Why should Hispanics from Central and South America “cut in line” while so many people from other countries wait and do things the right way? No, they are the downtrodden, most likely of little means in their own country and they are desperate to make money and send it home to their families so they feel entitled to cross the border.

They may have their own church or they may rent a hall or be a small ministry of a larger church. What would be the loving thing to tell them, “I’ll give you money and clothes” and support the breaking of the law or that lovingly, “You broke the law”, please consider how this effects your Christian walk?   

In the name of political correctness and trying to be a good Samaritan we offer them free English classes, food and clothes, not that we shouldn’t help the less fortunate. That is not what I am saying.   They come here for a better life but they still broke the law.  When we speed, we usually get a ticket, we rob we go to jail. But yet of the millions that come here with falsified documents such as Social Security and green cards, some actually use these documents to get their actual citizenship. Most of them just hide out and work.   The government condones their breaking of the law by giving them citizenship.

I know that some want amnesty, and others just want deportation, I am not going to discuss the possible solutions, because the repercussions are just as costly as the solutions. I just want to rectify the original error. If I went to any other country illegally, I would not be treated in the same way, with the red carpet rolled out. I would be imprisoned at minimum and then summarily be deported with the possibility of some emotional and physical harassment.

Why aren’t we talking to our Hispanic friends and church members? Are we so afraid of liberals, of retaliation, of being labeled bigots? Well if it means I am not paying for free health care and education for illegal aliens that have no right to be here than I do without papers in their country, then call me a racist.    Many  are also afraid that when we do speak up that no one will take us seriously especially those in government who might be inundated with complaints to zoning and Sheriff’s let alone ICE agents who are overwhelmed.

If all the Christian Hispanics that came here illegally could put their faith in action, they would consider returning to their homes in obedience to the law and God. Then we actually might be able to save ourselves from the deportation costs let alone the money it would cost to give them amnesty. 

But rarely does the sense of entitlement give anyone the desire to say “I don’t deserve this” or “ I was wrong,” in fact far from it.

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This is what can happen around the country when people get involved.  Citizens can not wait on government bureaucracy, they need to tell the government what to do until the government acts on the behalf of the people.  The government of  the people, by the people for the people.

Over a year ago we had several meetings in our town sponsored by the planning commission office in our unnamed county.  The goal was to obtain residents' input about the quality of life issues and also the building of an urban center which would include high rise buildings. 

What these planners and builders did not realize is that our town's residents would not be fooled.  We did not want more traffic, more crime and more overcrowding in the part of our county that is already plagued by the effects of illegal immigration.

The results of these meetings were posted on the internet.  But what has happened  this entire year?  Sure the county deputies are doing their routine stops and catching the criminals when they leave their mark.  The deputies are out there.  But they alone cannot stop the hoards of illegal aliens jammed into single family homes, lines of cars surrounding the overcrowded homes and the tall grass.   We are using county resources to take care of a problem that is not our responsibility.  Our money, our time and resources.

The crime is a symptom of the real problem.  They are illegal and they won't leave.  When a zoning inspector overlooks or plays dumb to a filed complaint  and the lies of residents that claim they are all "family," we lose ground.  When inspectors have to call first before showing up for the inspection so these non-Americans can hide and cover up the problem, we are made out to be fools.   When the number of complaints processed as valid are miniscule in comparison the large numbers being filed, we are made out to be liars. When zoning inspectors are re-tasked to another part of the county to work on "sign pollution" where the illegal population is barely an issue we are wasting time.  When the Sheriff doesn't use the full force of his privileges with the federal agencies while counties right next door to us are deporting several thousand a year, we hang our heads low.

I did not leave the crime infested Spanish Harlem to live in a ghetto of a people who have an overall lack of respect for property, for themselves and others.  They don't even think twice about breaking the law to come here and work illegally and receive the free benefits of healthcare and enducation for themselves and their children not only where I live but all around the country.

We have a new Sheriff station being built near the root of the evil surrounding us.  I'm not sure that will even remedy the core problem.   Even if we incarcerate gang members, and other illegal criminals, we are still paying for their room and board in the criminal system.  When does it end?  When will our voice be heard?