Trump is putting asylum seekers in grave danger. We're suing. & 22 Bible Verses on Welcoming Immigrants 17JAN20

The nativity scene at Claremont United Methodist Church depicts Jesus, Mary and Joseph as refugees in cages.

(NOT MY) pres drumpf / trump and (NOT MY) vice-pres pence condemn the war against religion, mainly Christianity, in the U.S. and issue a decree in defense of prayer in public schools. But it is up to a secular institution, the ACLU, not the "christianity" of the drumpf / trump-pence administration and the republican party, to come to the defense of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers as we were taught to do in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible . From the ACLU, make a donation to them if you can (I have been a member of the ACLU and a monthly donor for years) and to a charity working with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers (check charities out at Charity Navigator).
Trump is putting asylum seekers in grave danger. We're suing.

Asylum seekers are literally running for their lives, often traveling across vast stretches of land and water with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the hope that they'll one day reach safety. We just filed a lawsuit on behalf of asylum seekers who are now in even more danger due to the Trump administration's so-called "safe third country" policy. Under this new policy, the government is deporting individuals and families who come to the U.S. seeking safety from persecution, without even hearing their claims. The administration's claim is that it's deporting people to "safe third countries" where refugees can live in safety and have full and fair access to real asylum protections. But these places aren't safe at all. They include places like Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras – countries plagued by epidemic violence, instability, and ill-equipped asylum systems. Many people are fleeing from these same countries. Under this policy, the government will often deport an asylum seeker to a country right next door to their country of origin – even though the same gangs and cartels may operate in both places, and even though it's easy for persecutors to travel between these countries. One of the plaintiffs we represent is a gay man fleeing MS-13 violence in El Salvador. U.S. border authorities turned him away and sent him to Guatemala. There, our client fears that MS-13 will be able to track him down, and that living his life openly as a gay man will get him killed. This administration's attacks on our asylum system have been relentless, leaving millions of desperate people without safe haven. Fighting for immigrants' rights in this political climate can be daunting, but with the help of supporters like you, we can defeat these cruel, anti-immigrant policies. Thanks for supporting our fight, Omar Jadwat Director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project American Civil Liberties Union 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor New York, NY 10004, USA

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22 Bible Verses on Welcoming Immigrants

‘I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.’
Genesis 23:4

You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:19

The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 19:34

‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
Leviticus 27:19

When they were few in number, of little account, and strangers in the land, wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people, he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account, saying, ‘Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.’
1 Chronicles 16:19-22

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
Job 29:15-17

The Lord watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.
Psalm146:9

For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:5-7

You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who reside among you and have begotten children among you. They shall be to you as citizens of Israel; with you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel 47:22

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
Zechariah 7:9-10

You have heard that it was said, ‘you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy’. But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you.
Matthew 5:43-44

I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
Matthew 25:35

Truly I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me.
Matthew 25:40

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.
Luke 10:27

Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Acts 10:34

Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.
Romans 12:13

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8

Love does no wrong to a neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans 13:10

In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.
Colossians 3:11

Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.
Hebrews 13:1-3

Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the friends, even though they are strangers to you; they have testified to your love before the church. You do well to send them on in a manner worthy of God; for they began their journey for the sake of Christ, accepting no support from non-believers. Therefore we ought to support such people, so that they may become co-workers with the truth.
3 John 1:5

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them.”
Revelation 21:3