We’ve started on our “Sweet Home Alabama Tour.” \u00a0 (We continue to try to be as original as possible with the campaign.) \u00a0 Yesterday we stopped in Montgomery at a park. \u00a0 While the kids watched a youth baseball game, I got in a political discussion with a guy also watching the game. \u00a0 He said a hot button issue for him was illegal immigration. \u00a0 He said that if he were president, he’d end the wars, bring the troppos home and “…station them at the [southern] border.” \u00a0 Then he would try to send all the illegal immigrants back. \u00a0 “And if they tried to return, I’d order them shot, with instructions to leave the bodies where they fall — as a warning to others.” \u00a0 I asked him if he had a particular faith. \u00a0 He said he was a Christian. \u00a0 I then asked him how he saw his plan squaring with the: Good Samaritan story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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