[John Leland 1789]

" . . . the ‘fleeing from Judea to Egypt’ was not going from one country/nation to another. Both Judea and Egypt were part of the Roman Empire, each with Roman administrators and following Roman law. Thus ‘fleeing from Judea to Egypt’ was NOT going from one country to another but going, in American parlance, they were merely moving from one state to another, e.g. leaving California for Texas or from Maryland to Indiana."

This is correct. There are people up here ignorantly using the "flight into Egypt" to justify open borders; no need for visas to cross borders.

[drpix]

Since "both Judea and Egypt were part of the Roman Empire" pea-brian Ocasio-Cortez should know that Joseph & Mary going from one to the other no more made them "refugees" than her parents going from Puerto Rico to New York made her parents refugees."

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or, they want a new “Roman Empire,” bigger than the USA, to make such a thing possible.