day no. 17,470: highway snobbery

1 Peter 4:9

Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.

Matthew 25:35

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.

Luke 6:38

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.

Matthew 6:3-4

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. 

Luke 3:11

And he answered them, ‘Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.

"The verses you cite are of course authoritative, and we should come to them with an eagerness to obey. But what you are doing is taking verses that command private generosity and hospitality, and making them apply to public policy, particularly policy on immigration rates. This has the effect, not of you giving your goods away in obedience to Christ, but rather of you making other people give their country away. They are not the same thing." — Douglas Wilson, Letters, High and Inside

It is one things to freely give what you have away and quite another to force your brother to give away what it his. But it goes even further when it insists that the recipients of said forced attrition should be ones who are actively invading one's homeland. It is as though one would argue that those with much ought to give to those who have less and so when anyone breaks into your home, you should not call the cops, rather you should call for some friends to come over to help your intruders carry as much as they would like away.

Thou shall not steal presupposes property rights. It is the thing that makes charity possible in the first place. To force people to give away what is rightfully theirs is to put an end to the possibility of charity and to put into law a regular expectation of plundering your neighbor without recourse to the marauder and no restitution for the robbed.