Welcoming the Stranger

Published on Friday, August 24, 2012 and tagged with immigration.

When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

— Leviticus 19:33-34. Contrast self-deportation, a part of the GOP platform and embraced by Romney in January.