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Gary Scharrer: What would Jesus say?


A San Antonio state lawmaker says Texas Republicans ought to embrace the words of Jesus Christ and Ronald Reagan instead of the harsh rhetoric that he sees as part of the GOP’s platform on illegal immigration.

Texas Republicans want to seal the entire southern border with a 2,000-mile wall to keep undocumented immigrants from crossing into the United States from Mexico. Their platform also calls for the deportation of millions of undocumented workers back to their country of origin and the suspension of U.S. citizenship to children born “to illegal immigrant parents.”

The platform also urges the elimination of day labor work centers and the withholding of federal highway funds to any state that issues drivers licenses to “illegal aliens.”

Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, thinks Republicans would be better served if they followed Reagan’s advice that “nobody could be more guilty of anything greater than bigotry and prejudice.”

And if that doesn’t work, they might try this, he said: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

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