5 Things to Know About the 2018 National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast: Christian Politicians Divided

By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter Friday, June 15, 2018

5. Chuck Schumer Talks Mary, Joseph and Jesus plight

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) arrives to talk to the media on the president's FY2018 budget proposal, June 25, 2017. | (Photo: Reuters/Yuri Gripas)

Schumer said that the biblical story of Joseph and Mary escaping to Egypt with a young Jesus, fleeing for their lives, should remind all Christians of the importance of protecting immigrants.

"We are nothing if we are not a nation of immigrants. This is one of the deepest and most abiding facts in this great United States of America," he said, following his point on the holy family.

"We live in a time when we have to remind ourselves who we are, what we are, over and over again," he declared.

"So let us remember that immigrant families form the bedrock of so many American communities; that immigrants and their children and their grandchildren work every single day in our businesses; study in our schools; serve in our military; fill our houses of worship."

The Democratic senator vowed to fight "so long as God breathes air in my limbs" for immigrants to find a safe haven in America.