Who is your neighbor?
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
How would Jesus see the documented and undocumented immigrant if he lived in the USA?
The Bible says that God is love, and that Jesus was God in the flesh. He was full of compassion to the point of death on a cross. The greatest command he gave was to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, and secondly, love you neighbor as yourself.” I don’t think a follower of Christ would argue with this fact. So who is your neighbor? I don't believe this is a literal interpretation, so it doesn’t mean those that literally live next door to you. It could be anyone.
That is why it is so confusing that people who identify themselves as Christians so strongly want the deportation of immigrants, both documented with temporary status and undocumented. If Jesus were living in the USA today, what would he want? Would he be more concerned with enforcing man created laws of a government, or more concerned about having compassion for and loving the immigrant who is already here? It is hard to imagine that the creator of the universe who showed us the greatest example of love in the flesh cares more about an individual’s immigration status than he does about the individual. If I recall, the Bible says to take care of widows, orphans, and the poor. There is no asterisk in the scriptures that says “only if they are from your country” or “only if they have legal status.”