Comments on: Arizona and the Least of These http://blog.mtshafer.com/2010/07/31/arizona-and-the-least-of-these/ liberation is the direction of theology Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:04:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Republic Polytechnic http://blog.mtshafer.com/2010/07/31/arizona-and-the-least-of-these/#comment-1953 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:00:20 +0000 http://blog.mtshafer.com/?p=1100#comment-1953 You’ve written a very well-written story.
If it’s fine with you, I would like to seek permission to use your article as it fits to my topic. I will be happy to negotiate to pay you or hire you for this.

With Regards from
Republic Polytechnic

]]> By: The Parable of the Good Mexican « sword and cross http://blog.mtshafer.com/2010/07/31/arizona-and-the-least-of-these/#comment-1505 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:57:17 +0000 http://blog.mtshafer.com/?p=1100#comment-1505 [...] also: "Arizona and the Least of These"] religion. politics. ethics. etc. Subscribe by [...]

]]> By: Samantha http://blog.mtshafer.com/2010/07/31/arizona-and-the-least-of-these/#comment-1483 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:42:59 +0000 http://blog.mtshafer.com/?p=1100#comment-1483 http://www.takeourjobs.org/
Incidentally, I saw the guy leading up the Take Our Jobs initiative on the Colbert Report, but nevertheless, I think it’s really cool, and offers a non-religious reason to encourage open immigration. Aside from the fact that restrictive immigration policies are inherently illogical.
but anyways.

]]> By: Matt Shafer http://blog.mtshafer.com/2010/07/31/arizona-and-the-least-of-these/#comment-1482 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:13:16 +0000 http://blog.mtshafer.com/?p=1100#comment-1482 Great points Bill. The US needs to be mindful of how its action impact people on both sides of the border.

]]> By: Bill Peltz http://blog.mtshafer.com/2010/07/31/arizona-and-the-least-of-these/#comment-1481 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:28:17 +0000 http://blog.mtshafer.com/?p=1100#comment-1481 One other point to consider: US economic and trade policies work to increase the stream of economic refugees. My understanding is that NAFTA has been very destructive to Mexican agriculture, for example. Subsidies to large US corn producers enable them to export to Mexico at prices which small Mexican farmers can’t match. This has driven people off their farms and into the cities and into the migrant stream — or into the migrant stream in order to send money home to support their relatives on the farms and in the villages.

Our responsibility to “the least of them” is increased when it is our policies which have “lessened” them. We owe them.

]]> By: kristiancanler http://blog.mtshafer.com/2010/07/31/arizona-and-the-least-of-these/#comment-1480 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:07:54 +0000 http://blog.mtshafer.com/?p=1100#comment-1480 >> Arizona has cracked down on the victims of America’s broken immigration system rather than try to address the underlying problems with the system itself.<<

Hadn't thought of this! I never realized how the impersonal economic forces pushing immigration make attempts to keep people out or make them leave once they're here a woefully short-term response.

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