The United States is Not the Savior of the World, Nor Is She Intended To Be

The illegal immigration fight in the United States has reached a fevered
pitch. Amnesty activists believe that the United States should be the Savior of
the World, the only place where people can hope to live freely. It has become
so heavily protracted because the federal government has dragged its feet on
enforcement and long-term solutions for the last three decades. The pillars of
our culture have shamed elected officials to grant unfettered sympathy to
illegal aliens in our midst.

President Trump has offered a plan that would grant legal status for 1.8
million illegals, three times the number of current DACA recipients. Yet the
Democrats are balking at even this generous offer. Alzheimer's afflicted House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi claimed that Trump's overly-generous immigration
plan amounted to "Make America White Again." Members of her own party
in both chambers of Congress condemned those insensitive, incendiary, and
ultimately racist remarks.

Despite the backlash, Democratic Party is doubling down on demands for
complete amnesty, without any enforcement, including a border wall. Why are
they determined to blow off any otherwise generous compromise? The Democratic
Party cannot last without a fresh supply of third-world peasant migration, and
thus they cannot allow another pool of new voters to be blocked. These
political maneuvers are nothing new for the Democratic Party. From the Civil
War onward, the Democratic Party has relied on political machines which buy up
the support and sympathy of new immigrant voters, granting Democrats unending
dominance all over the country. One study suggests that legalizing DACA
recipients will turn Texas, North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia blue.

That's been the plan all along. But their plan has been exposed, and it's
going to fail. President Trump has offered so much, even at the temporary risk
of enraging his base, just so that he can show how out-of-touch the Democratic
Party has become.
Now, I want to comment specifically on the obsessive arguments among
pro-illegal and pro-amnesty factions. Their guilt-trip argument has relied on
the young illegals brought into this country as children, many of whom have
arguably established roots in the country and have little knowledge of the home
countries of their lawbreaking parents. The fundamental talking point goes as
follows: "We need to allow these children (who are actually adults) to
live in this country. This is the only place where they will experience
anything close to the American Dream.”

There is one problem: It is a lie that only in America can this dream come
to pass. Citizens in other countries can achieve the same measure of political
and economic freedom which makes prosperity possible in America. The cultural
transformation in these countries process may be in the earlier, less polished
stages of development, but there is nothing in the material or physical
resources to prevent victory.

Why has the United States prospered so much? All of these outcomes rest on
the Bible and a moral foundation vested in Judeo-Christian values.

Consider the promises outlined in the Bible for all countries which fear the
LORD:

"Blessed is the nation whose God is the
LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for
his own inheritance." (Psalm
33:12)

And

"Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea,
happy is that people, whose God is the
LORD." (Psalm 144:15)

Every prosperous nation has embraced the Gospel, the good news of Christ
Jesus, which includes the inherent dignity of man (and woman), along with the
restful hope that one can be blessed in pursuing a worthy endeavor. Nations
which have fallen away or lost sight of these blessed promises suffer and
struggle, too!

Western European nations have faced cultural and economic collapse for the
last 30 years. A sudden outpouring of the Gospel of Grace in these regions has
resurrected hope and opportunity again. Central and Eastern European
governments are now electing immigration hardliners and defending their
Judeo-Christian cultures once again
.
In other parts of the world, we are witnessing the power of the Gospel to
awaken the citizenry to demand freedom from their oppressive governments. Iran
has witnessed an unprecedented citizen uprising because of the subtle yet
widespread dispensation of the Gospel throughout the country. The most ruthless
dictators, the most unyielding of autocrats cannot stop the spread of the Good
News:
"But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found
even to fight against God." (Acts
5:39)

In China, Jesus is mentioned on social media far more than Chairman Mao. In
spite of the most vicious efforts of the Chinese Communist Party to shut down
unofficial churches, the spread of faith in Christ Jesus is unstoppable.
Communist officials have resorted to tearing down independent churches, and in
the most horrific cases, they have buried protesting congregants under the
rubble.

India is enjoying unprecedented economic growth and opportunity. Why? The
Gospel is being preached like never before. In Latin American countries,
citizens are rising up to oppose corrupt elected officials in larger numbers.
Despite the ravaging dangers of international gangs, corrupt bureaucrats,
executed journalists, and fearful police chiefs who have fled for their lives to
the United States, the people are rising up and fighting back.

None of this should come as a surprise for those of us. During the 1600s,
the English people received an accurate translation of God's Word, commissioned
by King James 1. Twenty years later, they rebelled against the
"divine" autocracy of his son Charles, which ushered in a Republic,
then a constitutional monarchy.

Because God's Son through His Word and Grace has so transformed these
nations, there is no reason for American citizens to accept the guilt trips
induced by open border and amnesty advocates. Illegals in this country,
regardless of their age, can survive and thrive in any other country in the
world. If they trust in God's grace, they need not fear what man may do to them
(Psalm 118:6). Americans
should scorn the shame of amnesty panders, who demand full legalization of
illegal aliens. They can stand on the truth that every man can have their
dreams come true in their home countries. The United States is not the Savior
of the World, and never intended to be. Every foreign national can rest on His
grace and truth in their home countries.