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Dubya (and my local GOP leader) are compassionate social conservatives. They are pro-immigrant for the same reason they are pro-life.

Let's not have any of this nonsense of being pro-illegal immigrant and hiding behind the pro-immigrant label. I am married to an immigrant, and am strongly pro-immigrant, but I am also strongly anti-illegal immigrant. Additionally, I was an officer in one of the largest pro-life organizations in the country, and I don't see any connection between being pro-immigrant and pro-life. That is simply nonsense.

There are three groups in the OT that the Jews were ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN to exploit and commanded to show mercy: 1) the widow 2) the orphan and 3) the foreigner living among them.
These three groups were the most vulnerable and unprotected. Those who see it as moral to assist them do so from the same motivation that prompted me to be a FOUNDER of a Crisis Pregnancy Center and the Metro Right to Life Chapter while in grad school.

If you can see no connection between the two, perhaps you should reconsider that one of the main constituencies of the "foreigner living among" them were slaves taken in war. These were hardly "legal" immigrants, but were remnants of godless hateful cultures who just recently had been engaged in killing Israelites. THESE are the people who are to be the recipients of acts of mercy.

It is nonsensical to equate that type of "foreigner" with the illegals I know, who are mostly honest, hard working wonderful people who would come legally if they could, but will come illegally to make a living if they must. Nevertheless, even if you DO equate the two, we are COMMANDED to show mercy and do acts of kindness, if the ethical ruler of Deuteronomy has any bearing on today.

I do believe that we should get CONTROL of our borders (otherwise, why have them?). That said, when it comes to the attitudes of the "redeemed" on Free Republic towards illegal immigrants, when I compare them to the attitudes of the pagans, I much prefer the pagans.