COMMENTARY: For immigrants, no room at the inn

The Christmas story is a good lesson about being humane to immigrants. - - Donna Poisl

COMMENTARY BY LANE LAMBERT —

Thanks to my home state’s new immigration law, I’m reading the Bible’s Christmas story with fresh eyes this season.

A young family travels far from home, finds no room in the inn, and then has to flee for safety.

You could read the Gospel journeys of Mary, Joseph and Jesus as a parable of what Alabama’s undocumented Hispanic immigrants have endured since the Republican-dominated Legislature passed the nation’s harshest immigration law.
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