Another in my series of attempts to “liken” the Book of Mormon to current affairs. 

    This involves a “very wicked” ruler trying to get his hands on people who had escaped his jurisdiction, and the people who harbored the escapees standing up to the wicked ruler 

to protect and help the vulnerable immigrants. 

     See Alma, chap. 35, verses 8- 9: “Now the people of the Zoramites were angry with the people of Ammon who were in Jershon, and the chief ruler of the Zoramites, being a very wicked man, sent over unto the people of Ammon desiring them that they should cast out of their land all those who came over from them into their land. And he breathed out many threatenings against them. And now the people of Ammon did not fear their words; therefore they did not cast them out, but they did receive all the poor of the Zoramites that came over unto them; and they did nourish them, and did clothe them, and did give unto them lands for their inheritance; and they did administer unto them according to their wants.”

     Perhaps we can learn something from this about how we Americans should be treating people who are trying to enter the United States to avoid persecution in their home countries and then trying to avoid apprehension while in the United States.