Immigration: What's your position?

Do you ever get the feeling that, in all of this discussion about immigration, we're talking about your neighbor, your co-worker, the person riding on the train next to you....?

That has recently happened to me. I've recently been struck with how personal all of this discussion about immigration must feel to millions of people living here in the U.S. Ultimately, the outcomes of these debates (perhaps even the debates themselves) may affect the lives of literally millions of immigrants in the U.S.

I'm not sure what to do with all of this. I appreciate that nations have a certain duty to protect and enforce their borders, but I'm also left feeling that, as a Christian, the discussion can't end there. Perhaps for a believer, in the end, the issue is ultimately about the person. In other words, no matter a person's opinion on the larger debate about immigration, they (we) can't forget that we are talking about people, like you and I, made in the image of God. It feels like that realization should bring a different perspective to these discussions for me.

I'm still processing these things and probably will for some time, but it's almost as if I can't (shouldn't) be drawn into the debate within the small box in which it usually exists. That, for those of us who are Christ followers, we are obligated, perhaps, to think about this with a different perspective.