No you wouldn’t.
You have a civic duty to report him. Unless of course your government was seeking to harm this person unjustly and unlawfully (think gulags, and death camp stuff) but your government isn’t they are simply seeking to return him back to his country of origin.
We are under no moral obligation to report people to the police in cases where no one is being harmed. For example, let’s say my neighbor has more pets than the city allows. Do I report her? Not unless she has so many she can’t deal with them and her home has become a hazard to her and the animals. This is not a black and white issue. It’s degrees of guilt and of harm we have to take into consideration. Besides, he’s not sure his friend is here illegally. He should ask him before alerting the authorities and only if it’s serious enough to warrant it.
Eh watch it with that comment. You are basically in-directly endorsing thievery.
You have no civic duty to report him. I would be very cautious, as you may not know your friend’s family situation. Our government has been splitting up family’s with deportations. I know of 3 cases personally and they have all caused great hardship. It seems to me the government is picking the low hanging fruit with regards to immigration in order to bolster deportation statistics.
I was in that situation once. I had an employee friend who was illegal. The way I found out was directly asking him. He said he was. I hired an immigration lawyer, paid $6,000 to get him permanent residency and he is now a citizen. It took several years.
Can anyone say apples and oranges? No one is talking about the OP committing a deliberate crime, as in your example. It is not a crime nor even morally wrong to not report what one is not sure about.
I agree, but first he should find out if his friend is even here illegally. He could be here on visa (quite legal). If he is here illegally, he should really try and convince his friend to try and become legal.
Entering a country illegally is no longer a crime? If he is working, did he also steal a social security number? Or is he working under the table and not paying taxes?
Not too long ago, it used to be illegal to harbor a Jew, or a runaway slave. The government salivates at the prospect of people looking to human laws as the highest arbiter of what is right and what is wrong; Christians are called to follow a higher moral law, and to follow their own informed consciences above any merely human law.
I don’t like this comment either, so that means someone could drive on the opposite side of the road because it’s bureaucratic and not moral (even though they will get themselves and others killed).
Crossing a border without permission is usually a misdemeanor. It rises to the level of a felony only after being deported and re-entering.
Wow…comparing illegal immigration to the Holocaust or Slavery? Excuse me, but no one forced the illegals to come here and the illegals have no legal right to be here.
