I just put this together & I thought that I'd share it here.

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Young Illegal Aliens

I need some help here friends making my mind up on this illegal alien debacle that Obama has set off. Before we get going let me state where I stand on immigration into the United States. I'm all for controlled, legal immigration. Immigrants throughout the history of our great country have made huge contributions to our society. In fact, unless you're a descendent or a Native American you've either immigrated here yourself or are a descendent of an immigrant.

Just as I'm for legal immigration I'm adamantly opposed to illegal immigration. Right now illegal aliens are wreaking havoc on our welfare system, taking badly needed jobs from citizens, & causing environmental damage on the border states. In addition illegal immigrants are being used at an ever increasing rate to smuggle drugs into our country which fuels even more violent crime, human trafficking, & a host of other horrific problems.

Now here's where I need your help. I'm trying to make my mind up on the big illegal alien debacle going on right now with young people. Obama by executive decree has basically ordered the stoppage of young illegal aliens below the age of 22 if I remember right. The problem I have with Obama's decree is that I believe that it's nothing more than an election year ploy to try to get the Hispanic & Latino votes. In that sense the decree is wrong.

I feel that the best thing to do here would be for Congress to set up a program (groan) that would allow young people, or anyone for that matter, that has been here in the USA since a certain age, say younger than 16 just guessing, to apply for citizenship without the fear of being deported. I know that this sounds similiar to what Obama is doing but I truly feel that the issue of young illegal aliens needs to be done constitutionally which means that Congress needs to address the issue, write the rules, assign departmental governing authority, & then fund it. I'm afraid Obama's way of doing it is unconstitutional (as usual) & Obama is creating a bigger mess then he claims to be cleaning up just to secure votes.

Now do I believe that a young person here illegally should be summarily deported if they've been in the USA since they were a child & have no serious criminal history? Not really, no. Let me say why. Many of these young people may not know that they are here illegally as many of them have been here since they were just children. Loading them up & sending them back to the country they came from could at the very least be a huge shock to them. Many of them could even very well having a hard time surviving as they could very well be seen as outcasts & have a very difficult time finding income, other than submitting to human trafficking, thus jeopardizing their very survival.

I'm sure you've heard the saying that "you should walk a mile in another person's shoes before judging them." That's what I'm trying to do here by putting myself in their situation.

Suppose it was my Father rather than my Grandfather that emigrated here from Poland. Also, instead of coming here legally through Ellis Island he managed somehow to sneak in. Now my Father is here & even though I would have been born in Poland my parents brought me here as a young child. I pretty much know very little of my homeland other then what I've heard my family talk about it around the house. I also have not a clue I'm not here legally. After all I attended public school here all the way from kindergarten up through graduating as a senior. English is my primary language and I am not very fluent in our native tongue as my parents try not to speak it around me very much because they want me to know the language that Americans speak because it will help me integrate better. What do you think would happen to me if all of a sudden I find myself in custody for whatever reason, doesn't have to be a serious criminal charge, it could be something as simple as an immigration sweep, & I'm on the next flight "home" to Poland? For me that is not a pleasant thought.

I'm still trying to decide for sure exactly how best to address this issue but this is what I've come up with so far. Am I on the right track? Is what's happening as the way Obama decreed correct? How big of a problem do you really see this? Please let me know what you think about what I've come up with so far. In addition, I'd love to hear your thoughts in general.

 There are two things I do know for sure. One, if we don't with this problem fast it's really going to get out of hand much worse than it is now. Two, those of us that claim to be conservatives have been labeled uncompassionate when we claim to be compassionate. If we don't show compassion here & do this right then we will prove our detractors right, make hypocrites of ourselves, & definitely lose a ton of ground that we have fought so hard to gain.

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God of Hope, Strength, & Love

Once again today's blog is wrote by a guest blogger, my daughter Brianna.  Let me just say that having a daughter this mature in Christ makes my heart leap for joy!
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Hey, so what I'm about to say might sound bad, and so does starting off with that line, but hey it's true. It also might encourage you to stop reading, great even better. Okay here it is, are you ready, here we go: I support traditional marriage, meaning one man, one woman, and sex inside marriage only. Woah, shocker right? A Christian standing by their Bible based beliefs? Don't worry I'm a bit surprised myself. I'm like a teenage girl version of Dan Cathy, you know the Chick-Fil-A, traditional marriage guy. Wait, wait before you stop reading, listen, well look actually at what else I have to say.

I do like gays, scratch that, I love gays, or at least try to. I try to love everyone, it's a Jesus follower thing. This past school year I had a friend come out to me that they were gay. After they told me I told them you know my views, but I'm here for you no matter what, and that was that. We're still friends, we just have different beliefs, and we don't try to shove our beliefs down the other's throat. C'mon you don't make friends by doing stuff like that, it's just not very friendly...

Actually with that being said that leads me into my next little point thing. I have no intention whatsoever to change anyone's views, get them to think, yes, a 180 view change, no. Also the last thing I'm here to do is judge, I have no right to. I am just as human as the next person, and I think we all are aware of how humans can be; very humany wumany. (Hehe Doctor Who reference for all the nerds)

Hey the only way I can say something like, "I only support traditional marriage," is if I have some to back it up. My back up, I am absolutely 100% convinced there is a God in heaven, the God of the Bible, and he is the only God. Now, I must confess, that I have had my fair share of doubts, but maybe my doubts are what lead to my rock solid faith. I had to doubt to God to really know he was there, kinda ironic really.

For me I have no reason to support homosexuality, because my God, the God of the Bible abhors it. Why would I support something that goes against everything I believe in? It makes no sense, so I don't. I hear so often, "But God creates people how he wants them to be." True he creates them with the power to choose; the power to choose him or the power to choose the world. He wouldn't be a loving God if he forced us to choose him. Since he gives us the choice, who am I to judge, who am I to condemn? I'm not, and I try not to, but as a Christian I'll be the first to admit I fail... miserably. I only fail though because I try doing it in my power. I forget that "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." -Phillipians4:13

I believe in God because of who he is and what he's done, not just in my life, but in the lives of others. If someone can give hope to the hopeless, then there's something there worth following. If he can take the kid headed to jail, caught up in gangs, there's gotta be something going on here. If he can take the formerly gay or the woman in the Roe v. Wade case and do a 180 on them, then this is someting huge. If the God of the universe takes time to transform the lives of individuals everywhere, then he's someone worth getting to know. But if he's never done any of this, then he's not worth it. If he's done even just one of these he's so worth it, but if he's done all of this and more, then he's indescribable. The God I believe has done all of this in more, so I give my life to follow God, not the world, cause my God is greater.