They are here illegally. They might not be welcomed here much longer! They are causing too many problems! They must leave!
That’s what we are hearing today.
Because they aren’t citizens, and they have caused a lot of grievances to us, we are seriously thinking of deporting them. 100,000 of them. After all, they have violated the law by coming here!
No. It’s not the United States saying this. It is Turkey.
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s prime minister has warned that he might deport up to 100,000 Armenians living in Turkey without citizenship after resolutions passed by U.S. and Swedish lawmakers defining World War One-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.
Of course, the reason why so many Armenians are in Turkey is because they were displaced by a major earthquake in 1988. They had to find a place to live, a place to work. They found one. It was an issue of life or death to them. And so it might be again — if they are kicked out of Turkey.
Now do you understand why the issue of immigration is more than an issue of what the law currently says? One can make bad laws. Nations can possess bad laws. One can enforce bad laws. One can use bad laws for racial politics (which is what Turkey is planning to do). But we must make one thing clear: if the law is bad, it has no moral force – whether it is in Turkey, or if it is in the United States. And if it is a bad law, we must work for the welfare of the people being oppressed — for example, the 100,000 + Armenians in Turkey who might soon find themselves struggling even more for their dear lives! Pray for them!
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