Opinion: ‘The moral obligation to extend hospitality to the migrant and the stranger’
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer listens during a briefing Jan. 27 in Silver Spring, Md. (Alex Brandon/AP file)
“Regardless of political affiliation or denomination, Christian people must speak clearly and with one voice that such treatment of the immigrant or cultural outsider in our midst is immoral and in direct opposition to the way of Jesus.”
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