Powered by Evangelical Christians Donald Trump has won the Iowa Caucus.
For these Evangelical Christians immigration was the major issue as they supported a candidate who says God’s children at a border are poisoning the blood of America
Agriculture is a major part of Iowa’s economy. The state farms produces nearly 20% of U.S. soybean, corn, and pork. Meat processing plants dot the landscape contributing greatly to nations supply of Polk and beef.
Ironically almost all the workers in the plants, and in the fields are immigrants of color. Working in the low wage nonunion jobs that was the staple of employment for white immigrants, a century ago.
These immigrants many of them who have entered the country illegally, are the lifeblood of agriculture not only in Iowa but throughout the nation.
They do the jobs that the white native population will not do. The giant companies that employ them have conspired in an elaborate scheme of don’t ask don’t tell.
For they know without them, crops would not be harvested, meat would spoil, and money would be lost.
Nevertheless, Evangelical Christians have bought into the lie that God’s children simply by entering into the county are poisoning the country.
Leviticus 19:33-34 commands “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
The United States is a land of immigrants. Without question many of the Evangelical Christians who Caucused for Donald Trump descended from immigrants who entered the county illegally.
Those descends worked in the same fields, those descents worked in the same plants and those descents came to United States for the same reason as those who at the border now for the opportunity for a better life.
Comprehensive immigration reform will allow America to use it’s God given bounty to greatly change the lives of God’s children around the world.
Perhaps it is the name Evangelical that makes the difference. However, for this Christian the path forward is clear, we must love the immigrate as we love ourselves, and reject the poison that is coming out of Iowa.
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