If it takes you five minutes to read this article, before you finish 35 illegal immigrants will have crossed the Mexican border into the United States. That may not seem like many, but the numbers add up quickly—416 per hour or 10,000 per day.
The website is found at http://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html calculates the total number of illegal immigrants to be 28,563,922 as of this minute, with the number so far this year to be 1,253,925—and counting.
Think of it. Tomorrow at this time, 10,000 more illegal immigrants will be living in our country, with no plans to leave.
The present and potential dangers of this arrangement are staggering: the cost in social services, influx of illegal drugs, port of entry for criminals and terrorists, the prospects of California and other states turning into Quebecs, etc.
I understand the difficulty of knowing what to do with the more than 28 million that are here, though this does not excuse the lack of action. However, I cannot understand the reluctance to stop the influx of illegal immigrants.
Evidently the problem is not legal. There are enough laws on the books to do the job and others could be passed.
Nor is the problem capability. The Minute Men are starting to build a fence following the Israeli design at a cost of $150 per foot. You might help put up a section at http://minutemanhq.com/bf. At that rate, it would cost less than a million dollars a mile. That means that the federal government could do the whole border for less than $2 billion.
The problem seems to be fear and lack of courage. We hear often that we live in a post-Christian era. In some respects even the evangelical community is living in a post-Christian era. With more concern over acceptance than righteousness, the evangelical community is failing to maintain a culture of character, and thus we are contributing to a secular society without courage of conviction.
Our porous southern border seems to provide a picture worth more than 10,000 words a day depicting the nature of such a post-Christian era. We need an evangelical reformation so that evangelicals can become source of character for the rest of our society. Only then will our nation regain the capacity to govern itself effectively.