Churches can help poor people in their home countries. They can send food, education, construction project assistance, etc. They can teach people to improve the country they are in, by teaching the value of freedom and independent initiative, and by reaching the rich, corrupt leader class of those countries and changing their hearts.
Mexico, for example, has resources other countries can only dream about (coastlines on two oceans, gold, silver, copper, oil, chocolate, vanilla, agriculture...). Yet a few corrupt, monopolistic people hold the others back, and the middle class supports the notion that some people are ok to throw away. They don’t do “liberty and justice for all”. When Christians help the least among them to be better Mexicans, we are doing our job. Otherwise, the people coming over are in an inherently undignified position— sneaking in the back door, disdained by the country they left, except for the money they send back. Real Christian churches will help them “bloom where they are planted.”
Amen brother.
You can Western Union $50 for $5 anywhere in the USA,
but you can send $1000 to Mexico for $8
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