Immigration and Welfare?

Question:

What should be the attitude of Americans toward aliens and foreigners?
What should be the attitude of Americans toward illegal aliens and non-documented foreigners?
Should illegal aliens or illegal immigrants be admitted into the country?
Should illegal aliens or illegal immigrants be allowed to stay in America?
Do legal aliens or immigrants need to speak English to enter America?
Do legal aliens or immigrants need to speak English to stay in American?
Should legal immigrants or aliens be given free SS welfare and hospitalization?
What about deporting illegal immigrants and illegal aliens?


Answer:

Exodus 12:48 And when a stranger shall travel with you and would keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no non-circumcised person shall eat of it.
Exodus 12:49 There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who travels among you.

Exodus 22:21 You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:9 You shall not oppress a stranger; you know the heart of a stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:12 Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your bondmaid, and the alien, may be refreshed.

Leviticus 16:29 And it shall be a statute to you for ever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves, and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who travels among you
Leviticus 17:12 Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who travels among you eat blood.
Leviticus 18:26 But you shall keep my statutes and my ordinances and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who travels among you.

Leviticus 19:33 When a stranger travels with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
Leviticus 19:34 The stranger who travels with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 23:22 And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field to its very border, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 25:35 And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a traveler he shall live with you.

Leviticus 25:47 If a stranger or traveler with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or traveler with you, or to a member of the stranger's family,
48 then after he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brothers may redeem him,
49 or his uncle, or his cousin may redeem him, or a near relative belonging to his family may redeem him; or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.
50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his release shall be according to the number of years; the time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant.
51 If there are still many years, according to them he shall refund out of the price paid for him the price for his redemption.
52 If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall make a reckoning with him; according to the years of service due from him he shall refund the money for his redemption.
53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
54 And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.

Numbers 9:14 And if a stranger travels among you, and will keep the passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the passover and according to its ordinance, so shall he do; you shall have one statute, both for the traveler and for the native.

Numbers 15:14 And if a stranger is traveling with you, or any one is among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to offer an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he shall do as you do.
Numbers 15:15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who travels with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the traveler be before the LORD.
Numbers 15:16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger who travels with you.

Numbers 15:22 But if you err, and do not observe all these commandments which the LORD has spoken to Moses,
23 all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,
24 then if it was done unwittingly without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one young [PETA?] bull for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its cereal offering and its drink offering, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a [vegetarian?] sin offering.
25 And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; because it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.
26 And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who travels among them, because the whole population was involved in the error.
27 If one person sins unwittingly, he shall offer a ["cruelty-to-animals" PETA?] female goat a year old for a sin offering.
28 And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who commits an error, when he sins unwittingly, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.
29 You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native among the people of Israel, and for the stranger who travels among them.
30 But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a traveler, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he has despised the word of the LORD, and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
32 While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.
33 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
34 They put him in custody, because it had not been made plain what should be done to him.
35 And the LORD said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp."
36 And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones [ without appeal, leniency, plea bargaining, nor parole ] , as the LORD commanded Moses.
37 The LORD said to Moses,
38 Speak to the people of Israel, and bid them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put upon the tassel of each corner a cord of blue;
39 and it shall be to you a tassel to look upon and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to go after wantonly.

Numbers 35:15 These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the traveler among them, that any one who kills any person without intent may flee there.

Deuteronomy 1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, 'Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien that is with him.

Deuteronomy 14:21 You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Joshua 20:9 These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel, and for the stranger traveling among them, that any one who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.

Second Samuel 12:4 "Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him."
Second Samuel 12:5 Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die;
Second Samuel 12:6 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity."

First Kings 11:1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
2 from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods"; Solomon clung to these in love.
3 He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
4 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not completely true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not completely follow the LORD, as David his father had done.
7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the LORD commanded.
11 Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, "Since this has been your mind and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.
12 Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
13 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."
14 And the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal house in Edom.

Ezra 10:11 Now then make confession to the LORD the God of your fathers, and do his will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.
Ezra 10:14 Let our officials stand for the whole assembly; let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, till the fierce wrath of our God over this matter be averted from us.

Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
4 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;
6 she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
7 And now, Oh sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
8 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;
9 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;
10 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;
11 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
12 and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
14 I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation."
15 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
16 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
19 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
20 Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.
22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the labor of his sin.
23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great foolishness he is lost.

Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Proverbs 10:15 A rich man's wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.
Proverbs 18:11 A rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall protecting him.<>BR>
Proverbs 11:15 He who gives a guarantee for a stranger will smart for it, but he who hates guarantees is secure.
Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 20:16 Take a man's garment when he has given a guarantee for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives guarantees for foreigners.
Proverbs 27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Proverbs 27:13 Take a man's garment when he has given a guarantee for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives guarantees for foreigners.

Ecclesiastes 6:2 a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction.
Ecclesiastes 10:19 Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.
Ecclesiastes 11:2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil may happen on earth.

Song of Solomon 8:12 My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, Oh Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.

Isaiah 5:4 What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?
Isaiah 5:5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.

Isaiah 28:9 Whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
Isaiah 28:10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.
Isaiah 28:11 No, but by men of strange lips and with an alien tongue the LORD will speak to this people

Jeremiah 7:6 if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt,
7 then I will let you reside in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
8 Hey, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.
9 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,
10 and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, 'We are delivered!' --only to go on doing all these abominations?

Jeremiah 12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my portion, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Jeremiah 22:3 Thus says the LORD: "Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place."

Ezekiel 16:32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

Ezekiel 47:23 "In whatever tribe the alien resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance," says the Lord GOD.

Hosea 5:7 They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

Zephaniah 3:9 Yes, at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call on the name of the LORD and serve Him with one accord.

Matthew 5:42 Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.

Matthew 15:22 And hey, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, "Have mercy on me, Oh Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon."
23 But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and begged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she is crying after us."
24 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
25 But she came and knelt before Him, saying, "Lord, help me."
26 And He answered, "It is not fair to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Matthew 25:43 'I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'
Matthew 25:44 Then they also will answer, 'Lord [ "Lord!?" ], when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?'

Matthew 25:7 Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.
Matthew 25:8 And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'
Matthew 25:9 But the wise replied, 'Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you; go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.'

Mark 7:27 And He said to her, "Let the children first be fed, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."

Luke 4:25 "But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;
26 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian."
28 When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.

Luke 10:35 And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.'

Luke 16:19 "There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
20 And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores,
21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried;
23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.'
25 But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish."

John 10:1 Truthfully I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber;
John 10:5 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.

John 12:8 "The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me."

Acts 16:37 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! let them come themselves and take us out."

Galatians 2:4 But because of false brethren secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,
Galatians 2:5 to them we did not yield submission even for a moment, that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.

First Corinthians 16:2 On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that contributions need not be made when I come.

Second Corinthians 12:21 I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned before and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness which they have practiced.
Second Corinthians 13:10 I write this while I am away from you, in order that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

Second Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

First Thessalonians 4:9 But regarding love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;
First Thessalonians 4:10 and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we insist, brethren, that you do so more and more,
First Thessalonians 4:11 to seek to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you

Second Thessalonians 3:7 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you,
8 we did not eat any one's bread without paying, but with effort and labor we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
9 It was not because we have not that right, but to give you in our conduct an example to imitate.
10 For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.
11 For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.
12 Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living.
13 Brethren, do not be weary in well-doing.
14 If any one refuses to obey what we say in this letter, note that man, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.
15 Do not look on him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

First Timothy 5:11 But refuse to enroll younger-women widows; for when they grow wanton against Christ they desire to marry,
First Timothy 5:12 and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge.
First Timothy 5:13 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, gadding about from house to house, and not only idlers but gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.

Second John 1:10 If any one comes to you and does not bring this [Biblical] doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting . . .

Hebrews 13:16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

Jude 1:4 For admission has been secretly gained by some who long ago were designated for this condemnation, godless persons who pervert the grace of our God into [ immodest and/or pornographic ] licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.