Immigration: The Hottest Issue
A few days after thanksgiving, I asked Mike Huckabee what had surprised him about voters over the past six months of campaigning. “The intensity of the immigration issue,” he said immediately, and then added, “I honestly don’t know why it’s gotten so hot.” Huckabee gets points for candor: most of the presidential candidates I’ve spoken with in recent months feel the same way but aren’t about to say so. It is difficult to spend a day on the trail and not see the anger explode….
The criminalizing of immigration is a bigger issue than almost any of us know. One person in this article yells at Senator McCain about the possibility of civil war. This should be a wake-up call to all of us who care about humanity, and specifically for those of us who care about the United States of America. If this tension is to deescalate, nonviolence will be the method. There is no other way.
Nonviolent Migration 
December 8, 2007 at 8:39 pm
The sad thing is that those who are yelling the loudest are most likely to be those who proclaim Christian belief but are not willing to even try to behave like a disciple of Jesus Christ. Those who are most violent about the issue of immigration are those who should be most willing to love their neighbor. I don’t understand it. We are so unwilling to be self-examining to make sure that not only we are embracing the right ends, but more importantly using the right means. Nonviolence is the only chance we have to make real, lasting, and peaceful change.
December 10, 2007 at 5:51 am
Not only that but commiting to nonviolence ensures that we can be passionate in our beliefs without running the risk of hurting someone in the event that we are wrong. I wrote a post, “The Humility of Great Ideas,” about this that I think you’ll like.