William Chip

The cost of providing food and shelter in the U.S. is many times higher than in nearly all of the countries through which a refugee may pass on his or her way.   Continue Reading »

Advocates of a mass amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, under the banner of “comprehensive immigration reform,” seldom fail to mention “church leaders” and “faith groups” as part of their “coalition.” One might think that the complex issues of how many and which aliens should be permitted to immigrate and how we should deter unlawful immigration by the millions who will not qualify comes down to a simple moral question: What would Jesus do? Continue Reading »

William W. Chip writes: In “The Ethics of Immigration,” a debate in last month’s issue of First Things , Michael Scaperlanda and I exchanged views on the question of religious believers’ response to immigration. Scaperlanda was not convinced by my arguments or supporting data that “the . . . . Continue Reading »

William W. Chip Until very recently, serious conversation about immigration was all but banished from mainstream American discourse. This consensus of silence, imposed by opinion makers who found the topic distasteful or inconvenient, was undone by a number of recent events”including the sudden . . . . Continue Reading »