How to Politicize Christmas

"Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday linked the Christmas nativity story to the plight of refugees, referencing "refugee babies in mangers" and their parents."

Her exact words: 

Joy to the World! Merry Christmas everyone - here’s to a holiday filled with happiness, family, and love for all people. (Including refugee babies in mangers + their parents.)

Let's get the facts straight. Mary and Joseph and Jesus were not refugees. They were citizens of the state of Israel under the domination of the Roman Empire. They had been commanded by Caesar Augustus to register, along with all the other citizens of the empire, for a census, probably for the purposes of taxation (Luke 2:1-3). 

They did not leave their own country. Joseph and Mary traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem to register there for the census because Joseph was a blood descendant of King David, whose home town was Bethlehem (Luke 2:4-5).

Because Bethlehem was so crowded, lodging was difficult to come by. Mary gave birth to her son and placed him in a manger because there was no room for them in the kataluma (2646), which probably refers to the guest room of a home. Most homes were divided into two – the living quarters and the animal quarters. The home in which they stayed had no guest room available in the living quarters, so Joseph and Mary and the baby Jesus spent the night in the animal quarters of their guest home (Luke 2:6-7).

To be sure, Jesus was born in exceedingly humble circumstances. But Joseph and Mary were not refugees. 

To use the Christmas Story to promote the global Marxist mantra of open borders in all countries is a completely dishonest perversion of the truth. But since when have Marxists been careful to tell the truth? 

If Marxism were true, all those Central American refugees would be high-tailing it to the south to live in Venezuela!