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elleng

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Thu Dec 24, 2015, 04:18 PM Dec 2015

O’Malley: Jesus was a refugee.

Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley says plans to deport hundreds of illegal immigrants in a series of raids are not befitting of the Christmas season.

“A Christmas Refugee Roundup sounds like something [Donald Trump] would concoct,” O’Malley tweeted Thursday. “Remember: Jesus was a refugee child who fled death gangs.”

O'Malley's comments come hours after reports emerged that the Department of Homeland Security is planning a push to deport hundreds of immigrants from Central America who fled violence in their homelands.

Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, has called for a halt to a Syrian refugee relocation program and has advocated a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the country.

In the nativity story recounted in the Gospel of Luke, Joseph and Mary go to Bethlehem after Caesar Augustus issued a decree calling for a census.

After Jesus was born, according to the Gospel of Matthew, Mary and Joseph were warned by an angel to flee to Egypt before King Herod issued a decree calling for all male infants to be killed.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/264207-omalley-jesus-was-a-refugee

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O’Malley: Jesus was a refugee. (Original Post) elleng Dec 2015 OP
We talked about this very thing at Services last Sunday and Peacetrain Dec 2015 #1

Peacetrain

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1. We talked about this very thing at Services last Sunday and
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 01:01 PM
Dec 2015

Christmas Eve services last night.. Merry Christmas elleng.. wishing you the best of the season

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