If any of your kin fall into difficulty and sell themselves to you, you shall not make them serve as slaves. They shall remain with you as hired servants. You shall treat them as your brother or sister.
The sojourner - the immigrant, the foreigner - is accorded the same protections as native Israelites. They're your relatives, deserving the same care.
I'm an immigration attorney, and I kept hitting this passage when working with families facing deportation. The law is astonishingly clear: the foreigner isn't tolerated, not charity cases. They're your kin. That standard would overturn so much of our immigration enforcement if we actually believed it.
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