What Does the Bible Say About Immigration?

Needless to say that this is not a political platform, instead, it is strictly where believers gather to discuss the Biblical perspective of the issues relating to our daily lives. Immigration is a permanent (or temporal) movement of people from a different culture/region/ country to another one. Reasons for such movements may include drought, war or deliberate invasion. Let's look at them in detail. Drought-induced immigration I believe this is the most common migration we see in Scripture. We have examples like Ruth and family, who were forced to migrate to the land of Moab in search of better living conditions ( Ruth 1:1 ). Other Examples include Abraham ( Gen 12:10 ), Isaac ( Gen 26:1 ) and many others. I am also sure that there are real life examples in the vicinity of your location. War/persecution-induced migratio n Our Lord Jesus’s flight to Egypt is a good example of people running away from their countries as a result of persecution or some kind of life-threatening danger...