My Response to Mass Deportation: Join me in a letter writing Campaign!! - Video

We who are Christians need to separate ourselves from the inherently evil mass deportation plan now emerging. Join me in writing to our legislators to express our Christian concern for what the GOP intends to do to immigrants -- the least among us, people God loves.

SAMPLE LETTER: (link to Google Docs version -- apologize if not "clickable") https://docs.google.com/document/d/15HhR2To2evzViOs6NJRewKwKeGd8iRYu7ci_M4wzhV8/edit?usp=sharing

January 1, 2025
Dear Legislator,

As a Christian, I am deeply troubled by the GOP’s intentions toward immigrants. The Bible says “God loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing,” and expects those He blesses to do the same (Deuteronomy 10). Jesus may have been referring to Deuteronomy 10 in Matthew 25:31-45, where he says in the future would gather the nations and then separate them into “sheep and goats” based in large part on how “the strangers among them” were treated by the religious of their day. The “sheep” are those that see the “least of these” as Jesus brothers – see verse 40 (“my sheep here my voice and they follow me” – John 10:27). The “goats” are those for whom the “least” are not brothers – see verse 45 (“But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?” 1 John 3:17).

In the Fall election, a broad range of GOP candidates participated in spreading the conspiracy “they’re eating our pets” against the Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. Yet over 90% of the Haitians in this country are Christian – many evangelical. Many of them are the epitome of the “foreigner God loves residing among us.” Now almost certainly, Haitian Christians – already threatened and attacked – will soon be targeted, persecuted, and perhaps even killed by what is now the GOP’s first and most important priority. The LORD watches over the foreigner (Psalms 146:9), and He will not be passive in responding to the GOP’s oppressive policies (Zechariah 7:8-14).

Indeed, Jesus says that he is the stranger God sends to our doorstep, but he did not say he was a stranger with a green card. Yet GOP policy is that all those without documentation are hardened criminals undeserving of compassion. According to nonpartisan analysis, your GOP border policies of 2017 – 2020 were torture, often leading to the persecution and death of young migrant children (Guardian, Feb 25, 2020). Now you intend a repeat and amplification of that cruelty against many residing among us who God loves. Yet this is what the LORD says: Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner. (Jeremiah 22:3). As a Christian who loves this country, I strongly urge you to reconsider!

History indicates it will not be successful. In the 1920s, the KKK railed against the 30 million Italians and other Catholics “without papers.” The KKK is now anathema, but Italian Americans thrive and prosper. In the 1950s, labor shortages in Mexico motivated joint US and Mexico deportations of over a million back to Mexico. Yet the flow of cheap labor into America’s economy was minimally affected and the program was terminated once both its cruelty and its failure became obvious. Indeed, GOP policies of 2017 to 2020 were intended to be harsh deterrents to anyone intending to come to this country, but by the GOP’s own admission, such messaging has failed completely.

Surely there are more pressing priorities for your party! God loves immigrants and blesses those nations who do likewise, but those nations who do not He judges harshly (Ezekiel 22:29-31). We who are Christians in this country love this country and do not want to see GOP policies bringing God’s judgement upon us. And we are deeply concerned about what you are about to do to the foreigners among us – people that God loves.

Sincerely,

[YOUR NAME HERE]
[YOUR CITY, STATE HERE]