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The Chimes

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The Chimes

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The Chimes

The morality of a border wall reconsidered

a patroller stands next to the border wall
Walls can help provide safe and secure borders, while open borders will lead to a world governed by distant global elites at the expense of vibrant and unique national communities.
Darren Guerra and Markus Zehnder February 2, 2019

Are walls immoral? Are people who support walls acting immorally? Two respected Biola faculty colleagues recently argued, in a previous article, that Christians should not support a wall at the southern border of the U.S. because to do so would be inherently immoral. In the spirit of rigorous and civil...

Border walls are immoral

Border walls are immoral
Support for the border wall is based on falsehoods about immigrants.
Tom Crisp and Brad Christerson January 28, 2019

Uppated 1/28, 3:07 p.m. This is in response to the Chimes’ opinion article entitled “Building the border wall is not immoral.” In it, the writer makes the claim that President Donald Trump’s proposal of spending $5 billion on a wall on our southern border is not immoral, but rather economically...

Building the border wall is not immoral

Building the border wall is not immoral
Though it is easy to say, it is difficult to argue that the border wall is immoral.
Logan Zeppieri, Opinions Editor January 15, 2019

Entering into its fourth week, the record-setting U.S. government shutdown continues over disputes regarding a portion of the U.S. budget equivalent to a rounding error. At a massive $4.4 trillion dollar budget, the $5.7 billion dollar request to build the southern border wall is no more than 0.0998...

Trump executes string of executive orders

Students need to be aware of small executive orders, which can have big impacts.
Tim Seeberger, Writer March 1, 2017
Students need to be aware of small executive orders, which can have big impacts.