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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and

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faith. And today, I'd like to address an open letter to the illegal alien on why it is in his

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own best interest and the best interest of his wife and children and family, why it is in your

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best interest to adopt biblical conservative principles and join us, whether it's in the

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realm of politics, religion, or immigration. This issue is fresh on the hearts and minds of Americans

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as a great surge in immigration, crossing our southern border immigrants, crossing our southern

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border has been happening, especially since the expiration of Title 42, a provision which permitted

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border agents to turn back immigrants suspected of carrying the COVID virus. Well, it's estimated

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that the flood of illegal aliens coming into the United States has reached a new high,

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especially in this month, estimated already in May at 180,034, and the month isn't even over.

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Dear illegal alien, perhaps this is you. Whether you crossed a searing desert along our southern

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border on foot, surreptitiously, risking your life, your health, and your dignity, or whether you flew

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comfortably into a regional airport a while ago with a student visa, which you have long overstayed.

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Whether you realize it or not, you have helped create, in your own small way, a constitutional crisis

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that goes to the very heart of who we are as a people here in the United States of America,

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a constitutional republic. Every generation of American has at least one issue that tests

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its existential core, whether it be liberty and the American Revolution, slavery and the Civil War,

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perhaps racism in the Civil Rights Movement. Well, today, this issue of illegal immigration,

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and our constitutional integrity is one of those issues. We are in the midst of trying to resolve it,

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and I'm afraid that our side, and I consider myself an unabashed biblical conservative,

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is badly mischaracterized. Our side is badly mischaracterized and misunderstood by many,

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too, misunderstood, misunderstood, excuse me, by most immigrants crossing our border without documentation.

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So, please, let me ask you to put aside your preconceived notions of who I am when I say

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I am a biblical conservative in favor of border security, but that's not all. I'm also in favor of

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equal opportunity for all. So, do not let the soothing promises of those who dangle government

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programs and goodies before you and say they have your best interests at heart, don't let those kinds

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of things entirely color what you think my intentions for you may be. No, they may be more salutary in the

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long run than you can imagine right now. But please, prepare your mind for concepts and a point of view

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on life that may be new and unthought of by yourself, but maybe not as well. First of all, let me ask you,

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dear illegal alien, let me ask you a very simple question. Why do you want to come here? One reliable

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on-the-ground poll conducted by Latino Decisions, an organization called Latino Decisions. Well, they

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found that of the thousands of illegal immigrants polled, 77% said they came here illegally to find

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better jobs or opportunities for themselves and their families. Another 12% said they came to reunite

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with family members who had already come here. Far down the list came other reasons, like freedom from

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oppression or escape from the law in their own land, or even a chance to live in a free democracy.

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The chief and overriding reason that illegal aliens come here is for jobs, economic opportunity,

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and the chance to prosper. And to this, I can say, amen. Who can blame you for wanting to work here

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that pays many multiples of what you might earn in Mexico or any other country in the world,

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for that matter? I certainly cannot blame you for wanting to see a dream come true. Oh, just a few

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examples that touched my heart. For example, of a chain of restaurants throughout the Southwest,

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for example, Marcelino Garcia, a Mexican immigrant who founded Chilinos, an 11-chain restaurant in the

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Oklahoma City area, who promised on entering the United States of America. I promised never to ask the

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United States government for anything, and I never have. I love that. He said, and once again,

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this is Marcelino Garcia. He said, I promised never to ask the United States government for anything,

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and I never have. I love that spirit. Or perhaps you are someone like the National Hispanic Construction

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Association. Oh, becoming a contractor up and down the West Coast instead of a common laborer.

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And the National Hispanic Construction Association has dozens of success stories of Hispanic immigrants

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starting their own contracting firms, or even seeing your name on a fine California Chardonnay,

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originating from your vineyard, like Ronaldo Rabladas, who is a Mexican immigrant who went from

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harvesting grapes to producing them. And he now has his own vineyards in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake Counties, too.

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He has 14 vineyards with over 300 acres in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake Counties. Ronaldo Rabladas. Oh,

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I love his success story. So, dear immigrant friend, many countless millions of Americans

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have dreamed the same or similar dreams, and they've aspired to the same or similar ambitions.

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Many immigrants have achieved them, too. Wonder of wonders. I trust that something of the same kind

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maybe motivates you to come to the United States of America. And the next question that I will ask you,

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then, is decisive as to whether the opportunities you seek for yourself and your children, whether they

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will endure. And that question is, why do you think these better jobs and opportunities for unlimited

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success are here and not somewhere else? For example, like your home country. Oh, there is a reason

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the United States of America has flourished and prospered beyond any other nation in the history

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of the world. You may not realize it. I don't want to patronize you. You may realize it, but you may not

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realize. But it is America's founding principles that created the circumstances and environment for

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prosperity. If you would guarantee success and prosperity for you and your children,

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it is in your own best interest to preserve, sustain, and protect those founding principles.

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Let me describe for you seven of the most significant of America's founding principles

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that relate directly to your immigration to the United States of America. Number one of those seven

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significant principles. Number one, it is the individual who creates wealth in the private sector.

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Oh, each of these terms are significant. It is the individual who creates wealth in the private sector.

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As you have observed in the instances of Mr. Garcia, Rabladas, and these men relied upon their own

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individual intelligence and initiative and hard work to succeed for themselves and their families.

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They did it not because of, but in spite of, government interference. Oh, remember Mr. Garcia,

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I promised I would never ask the government for anything. I love that spirit. The public sector,

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the government cannot and never has created a dime of wealth. It is impossible by its very nature for

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government to create wealth. Government by definition is a parasitic entity created by the people for very

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limited purposes. Things like administering justice or police or military or maybe even border security. Yes.

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Well, as long as that parasite, that is the creature who draws his nourishment from the host,

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that is the public sector, as long as that parasite enjoys a symbiotic relationship with its host,

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providing a service to it, well, then we can say that things are good. But the host parasite must

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always keep in mind. Who is host? That is the private sector that actually creates wealth

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to supply the parasite. So both host and parasite must always keep that in mind. Who is the host and

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who is the parasite? That is the government who sucks the resources from the private sector in order to

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supply limited and defined services. Oh, when the roles are reversed, oh, the parasite eventually

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sucks the host dry. And ironically, both of them die. So my dear illegal alien friend, I must ask you

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if some of the things you are doing might not be undermining this principle. How tempting are the

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government freebies? With free food stamps, I can feed myself and my family. With free health care, I can keep

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my family healthy. With a free Obama phone, for example, I can stay in touch with my family in my home

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country. With free government assistance, I can pay the rent. On and on it goes. Just only know that in

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the end, there is nothing free for you or for your fellow citizens. You will pay in the erosion of your

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own character. Things like self-reliance or your work ethic or your pride in ownership. All of these

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things you will pay in the erosion of your own character. And additionally, the so-called free stuff

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the government hands out will be called due by history. Yes, history will call all those bills due.

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You, me, and our children will pay the bill through inflation and taxes and the heavy borrowing

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that we have done. You are undermining the very liberty and prosperity you came here to find,

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dear illegal alien. Don't do this. No, no. Instead, join us. Join we, constitutional conservatives,

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and ensure those liberties and prosperity for you and your children. While the second principle

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that we must all keep in mind when we are considering holding up the principles of America

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that will keep fresh new immigrants prosperous and free, as well as we who have been born to

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it, the second important principle is big government tyrannizes and limits the individual while limited

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government liberates and unleashes the individual. Oh, big government tyrannizes, limited government

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liberates. Our founding fathers were close students of what John Adams called the divine science of

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government. Oh, yes. Our founding fathers saw government, the study of government as the divine

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science. As they analyzed the various forms of government throughout history, they observed that most of

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these governments in history were monarchies. That is, a ruler who got his power in a royal family,

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like Spain, from which Mexico inherited her former government. Or they were oligarchies, that is,

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governments by a small group of men. Or they were tyrannies, that is, cruel, arbitrary rule by

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one or just a few men. All of these governments reflected the self-serving interests of the government

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and those that comprised that government. And they did not serve the greater good of the people,

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of the individuals who were being ruled over. As John Adams puts it, he says,

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in the earliest ages of the world, absolute monarchy seems to have been the universal form of

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government. Kings and a few of their great counselors and captains exercised a cruel tyranny

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over the people, unquote. That was John Adams' observation on the earliest forms of government.

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So, our founding fathers studied and decided on a constitutional republic because it was shown to

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give the greatest liberty to the individual and the smallest powers to the government. Our constitution

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was so composed that it limited big federal government. For example, things like the separation

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of powers into three branches of government. Checks and balances, where one of those three put a check

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and balance on the other. And the 10th Amendment, which reserved all powers not specifically delegated

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to the federal government to the states and individuals in the country. Wow. The federal government

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was limited. And it gave limitless, then, our constitution gives limitless powers to the states

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and to individuals. Our founding fathers' judgment has been justified, too, in the crucible of history,

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as we see individuals under a constitutional republic flourish as no other in the history of man.

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So, dear prospective illegal alien, please, always keep this uppermost in your mind and do nothing

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to compromise it. It is by the sweat of your brow that you will earn your bread and your bread alone.

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And thereafter, it is your property, too. It is your property to do with as you please,

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despite a parasitic federal system. Well, the third principle that we must keep in mind,

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dear illegal alien, the third principle that we must keep in mind, if we are going to keep the nation

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you are immigrating into, must be, number three, God, and not government, has given us unalienable rights.

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Yes, always keep this uppermost in your mind. It is God, and not government, that has given us

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unalienable rights. So, dear prospective immigrant, I understand that God,

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and religion play a large role in your life, and I say amen to that. So it does in my life,

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and in the lives of our founding fathers. In fact, those immortal words of our Declaration

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of Independence reflect this, where Thomas Jefferson penned, he said,

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we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by

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their creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit

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of happiness. Unquote. Oh, dear illegal alien, dear prospective immigrant, were you aware that

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Jefferson's first draft actually read life, liberty, and the pursuit of property? His colleagues on the

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draft committee, which were James Madison and Franklin, well, they advised him to change life,

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liberty, and the pursuit of property to happiness. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,

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because that word happiness was broader, and property was included in it. But the fact remains,

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a man's property acquired through his own individual laborer is his own, and cannot be seized or taken by

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anyone without his consent. If and when you become a citizen, dear prospective immigrant,

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you should be able to rest assured that your property, that is the wealth created through

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your labor, you must be assured that your property is your own and no one else's. So, my dear immigrant

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friend, I must ask you, if your assumptions about our big, bloated federal government and its exponents

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might not be undermining the very principles that make you free and prosperous, that will make you

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free and prosperous in this country. Perhaps you look to it, that is the big federal bloated government.

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Perhaps you look to it and its enthusiasts for government programs, like food stamps. Perhaps

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you listen to the siren song from Washington, D.C. concerning amnesty and citizenship. Perhaps you

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listen to advocates who get you an illegal ballot with which to vote. Be careful. Be careful, dear

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prospective citizen, dear prospective immigrant, dear illegal alien, be careful. Your rights are given

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you by God, not by government. Your rights are inherently his to give and cannot be taken away. Government,

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when you and it assume they are the source, government can take them away. And it eventually does. It can

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take away then what it purports to give. Instead, embrace Mr. Garcia's credo, which is, I promise never

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to take anything from the government. Oh, number four, then. The fourth principle that we must always keep

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in mind, dear prospective immigrant, dear prospective citizen, dear illegal alien, the fourth principle

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that we must always keep in mind when considering your immigration to this land of liberty is, your

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rights are guaranteed and protected by the rule of law. Your rights are guaranteed and protected by the

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rule of law. Oh, dear prospective immigrant, how many governments do you know who rule by men in power?

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The recently deceased Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is a most recent example. While Venezuela has a thin

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veneer of the democracy, it was really Chavez who dictated what went on there. It was a rule of men

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and not of law. That's the case throughout most of the world, too, whether we speak of Morsi in Egypt,

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Kim Jong-il in North Korea, or Putin in Russia. And so it has been throughout human history,

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and so shall it be, with the exception of the United States of America, and perhaps a few

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European republics. Here in America, the tradition has been the rule of law versus the rule of men.

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That is, John Adams explained the founder's understanding when he wrote that good government

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and the very definition of a republic is an empire of laws. He called it an empire, not of men, but of

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laws. In America, the government governs the citizenry according to the law, not by the whims or

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fancies of our leaders, although that seems to have been changing here in the recent past,

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by requiring our leaders, at least in principle, by requiring our leaders to enact and publish the

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law, and then to adhere to the same law that applies to each citizen themselves. The rule of law

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acts as a potent barrier against tyrannical and arbitrary government. We have seen some of this

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indeed being transgressed in the recent scandals concerning Joe Biden's administration or the FBI

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or the transgressions of the Department of Justice even. Ah, we are becoming more and more a government

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of men rather than law. So we must return to that principle. The rule of law requires that the same

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law govern all citizens. Founding father Samuel Adams observed that the rule of law means that,

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and I quote him, there shall be one rule of justice for the rich and for the poor, for the favorite in

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court and the countrymen at the plow, unquote. Oh yes, the same law for all of these. So by requiring both

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the government and the people to adhere to the law, the rule of law serves as the foundational first

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principle for protecting our liberty. So my dear immigrant friend, I must ask you if the things

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that you are doing presently are destroying this principle that makes liberty here in the United States

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the envy of the world. Oh, and it is, is it not? Oh, the principle of the rule of law indeed makes

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liberty here in the United States the envy of the world. That's why you're coming here in many respects.

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And then, but to think of it, your very first act in this country violates the rule of law by coming

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here illegally. Do you understand this contradiction? How many other laws then have you broken in the

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course of your stay? Have you considered that your lawlessness has seriously compromised this

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principle of the rule of law for you and for your children? By transgressing the rule of law,

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you have put in jeopardy the very principles that ensure the liberty and prosperity for which you

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came. Oh, better to cherish and observe those laws that you might strengthen those laws. Oh, dear

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prospective citizen, dear prospective immigrant to the United States of America, I understand fully why you

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have emigrated here and why you desire then to prosper here. But just understand that some of the

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things you may be doing, some of the people under whose influence you are falling may be enticing you

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to destroy the very principles by which you prosper and by which your family indeed finds the liberty

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it seeks. Indeed, you will find here liberty to labor and to retain the fruits of your labor and your

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wealth. It is you who creates wealth, not the government. They do not create wealth. It is the people

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by their labor who create wealth. And then as you bear the fruits of your labor, then you create wealth

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yourself and you prosper and you have the liberty to do so here in America. Make sure that your actions

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and that your initial steps to come here and then to become citizens of this country do not undermine

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that principle. And also remember that it is the living God. So many of those of you who come here

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are indeed religious people. You love the Lord Jesus Christ. You love your church and you have prospered

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in it and you have cherished it and you have taught your children the principles of your religion. Just

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remember that those same principles are what our founding fathers based so many of the principles of our

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constitution upon. That is upon the rights given us by God, life, liberty, and the pursuit of property,

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the pursuit of happiness as well. So just understand that we cherish that with you. I just encourage you

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to seek out those of us biblical conservatives who hold these principles so dear and just encourage you

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to examine those and examine those in an unbiased way. And I think you'll understand and embrace them

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eventually. So many of your compatriots have. That's been manifest here in recent elections and in recent

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organizations and other fellows who have stepped forth and declared their sympathy with and adherence to

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biblical conservative principles that have made this nation great. The very reasons that you are

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emigrating to this great country. So I encourage you to do so. And thank you for listening and thank you

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for kindly considering the things that I lay before you here today. And we'll consider then next week

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several other further principles that I hope you'll keep in mind as you take your place here in the greatest country and

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God's green earth and give thanks to God for it and for what is established here.

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This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m.

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at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And you can find then a catalog of our previous radio messages.

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Some of you have been inquiring to me about our previous messages. And we have a whole catalog of those stretching back

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almost 10 years now at our website, our podcast website, which is americastruths.org. One word, americastruths.org.

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And you can access access those and all future messages there at that website. New Geneva meets for

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holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And you can call us

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for further information or feedback at area code 208-523-0196. 208-523-0196.