- Nothing even remotely like the modern system of tightly restricted international borders existed in biblical times.
- Q: Pope Leo cited Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. How would you respond to Pope Leo in scripture? MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.
- But what about the tribes that did have defined territories and guarded them fiercely? Maybe we're romanticizing the past.