This Passover, as Americans contemplate deporting 11 million
aliens, it is good to think back on the Jewish experience in Egypt. God told Abraham: “Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers
[living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be
enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.” Jews are later told (Leviticus
19:33): “When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him
wrong.” And this: “The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the
native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in
the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.” Clearly, the 11 million unlawful aliens in
the U.S. are far from slaves—but just as clearly, we do not love them as we
love ourselves. The exodus of Jews from Egypt was a liberation; the forced
exile of 11 million unlawful aliens would be a cruel hardship, unbecoming a
nation that reveres Judeo-Christian ideals.
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