Immigration bill

Many of our powerful legislators who wrote the immigration bill are Christians, some even Baptists. I would like to beseech them to practice the most difficult part of our faith — true forgiveness — and to write a bill that makes a path to residency for people whose only crime is to find a better life for their families, to encourage their children to study and who themselves have struggled to master the English language and have proven their worth as part of our communities. A law based on forgiveness would show the world that we Christians in Alabama truly follow Christ.

Mary Dale Venegas
Haleyville, Ala.