Jeffress is on the wrong side of this issue. Before any Christian leader gets involved in helping make this political, they need to read Matthew 5-7, and do some serious meditation and prayer. We are frequently reminded, on this board, that no one Baptist speaks for another Baptist, but when it comes to Southern Baptists, there is a willingness to lump everyone together and allow one person to speak for all. Even Rachel Maddow mentioned that Southern Baptists were among the first on the scene to provide humanitarian assistance. So not every Southern Baptist thinks like Jeffress does.
http://sbtexas.com/evangelism/disaster- ... dercrisis/We have an immigration "crisis" because the Republican administration under George W. Bush cut funding to the border patrol to give the wealthy a tax cut. So there were fewer personnel available for patrol, and the equipment they were using for surveillance could not be replaced fast enough to be effective. Nine million of the 12 million people in the US illegally came in during Bush's terms in office. The number has been reduced significantly during the Obama administration, and it wasn't a problem at all during the Clinton administration. And while the current wave of children coming north is a new twist in an old problem, the Obama administration actually has done something about it, while Bush ignored it. So when John McCain and John Boehner flap their lips and try to make this a political issue, they are at the very bottom of why the issue isn't getting resolved. Perhaps the one good thing that will come out of this situation is that it seems to finally have awakened a lot of Americans regarding the do-nothing Congress, and it is turning public opinion against Boehner and Republicans in the House.
If you look at other Bush era budget cuts, you will find how much money they robbed from the Veteran's Administration to give their rich buds a tax cut and finance a three trillion dollar fiasco in Iraq. Congress, led by the incompetent, spineless Boehner, who won't even stand for his own convictions, is the problem, not the President or his administration.