Quote from: TDoS on Jan 07, 2024, 02:32 PMPicture taken of northbound travelers, heading north on the Mexican side of the Mexican/Guatemala border. I wonder how long it'll be before they get to the Rio Grande? I imagine all fine American Christian folk will treat them well.  :o

According to Googe Maps, it takes 21 days to walk from Guatemala City to Laredo.  Probably with hitching rides it takes less.

As with numerous morsels of Biblical advice, immigrants have rarely been well treated.  This is particularly true since the advent of the Nation-State.  It's why countries have borders and why you need a passport to cross them.  Everyone inside a country has to be accounted for, to make sure they're paying taxes and obeying the laws.  Travelers merely passing through are welcome usually, they spend money and trade, bringing economic activity.  People who stay need jobs and a place to live, they compete with residents already there.

Countries with economic problems are always exporting poor people.  In Russia, the Jews were driven out in the Pogroms, ending up in eastern Europe and Germany where they formed Ghettos of poor people , who the Nazis eventually wanted to get rid of.  Eventually they came up with the Final Solution to the problem of poor migrants.

Here in the FSoA it was a relatively open door policy for poor people as the land waas stolen from the original inhabitants it needed to be repopulated with workers and taxpayers to build out the system.  That build out is finished, and the welcome mat is being rolled up.

RE