"The daily routines are similar in these two small, prefabricated houses on a flat road paved into the North Texas prairie. Both families raise chickens and dogs, work long days for little pay and pray for better at church on Sunday."
One sees hope in the tougher stance of the new President on border security, and the other sees danger that their hope of a better life will end in a deportation raid.
I read about the life of each family. Both struggle with money. Both want a better life. Both are pawns in a political battle of gigantic proportions.
Just yesterday, I read again the story mentioned above, and wondered about the solution to the problems of these millions of people here illegally, and the feelings of those that feel they are paying for someone else's illegal activity.
My prevailing attitude was compassion for both, that surely there was a way that this great country could solve a problem that would be right for each of them.
Then, as the news played on the TV last evening, the story of two undocumented teenagers who assaulted a girl in a high school in Maryland came out, and in a "sanctuary city" no less.
Which of these people will be the face of the complicated situation, the teens in Maryland, or the family living and working in the US for two decades and fearing a return to the life they had escaped from?
There are enough heart-warming stories of these folks who are trying hard to get ahead, and enough of those criminal stories, to fuel the flames of passion and conviction of all sides on the immigration debate.
I saw this image posted on a website:
We do need to be careful...
Careful that we don't let our compassion be drowned out by the voices of hate, and
Careful that we just throw up our hands and say that there is no solution.
Careful that we don't just depend on Politics to make it right.
God has the right solution and we need His wisdom
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