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Border Crisis: What’s Moral and What’s Legal
I watched 3 kids, ages 4, 9, and 11, play with my son at the park. I had just met them and their family. They ran, laughed, and showed genuine affection to my one-and-a-half-year-old son as he giggled with delight. Their mother was sitting on a picnic bench chatting with my wife. The father stood under a tree, chatting with some other friends of ours.
It looked like a typical American family get-together. There was nothing unusual about it…
…except that these were asylum-seekers, migrants from Central America. To much of our country, they were drug dealers, human traffickers, and terrorists. And just a year earlier, they had suffered the traumatic experience of child separation at the hands of our government.
What’s Simple Has Become Complex
When basic morality becomes corrupted with identity politics.
Basic right and wrong says you should help people in need. You learn that as a child from any decent family, teacher, or religious leader. You even learn it from cartoons.
As we grow up, even the morally dubious who are apathetic to the needs of others can agree on the universal…
