Last updated 10/30/2024

1. A lot of conservative Christians have bought into the racist canard that brown immigrants are destroying America. Mexicans and Middle Eastern people are among the most common scapegoats.

Uncritical and archived examples

Dr. Dobson's Visit To The Border | Family Talk (July 2019)

Archived on Wayback Machine

Grocery Store Ad Mailer Stirs Controversy by Susan El Khoury | KNWA (February 2019)

Archived on Wayback Machine and Archive.today

Commentary

Understanding White Evangelical Views on Immigration by Kristin Kobes Du Mez | Harvard Divinity Bulletin (2018)

More about anti-immigrant attitudes in Christian spaces

Sam Rohrer: Those Who Oppose Trump's Immigration Plans Are On The Side Of The Antichrist by Kyle Mantyla | Right Wing Watch (August 2017)

Evangelicals and immigration | slacktivist (November 2009)

Religious Right Anti-Immigrant Group Warns Non-Christian Immigrants Will Encourage Sex Trafficking by Brian Tashman | Right Wing Watch (November 2013)

White Evangelicals Have Turned on Refugees by Chrissy Stroop | Foreign Policy (October 2018)

Further information

Newly Released Emails Show How Trump's 'Eating the Pets' Conspiracy Theory Led to a Deluge of Threats by Lucas Ropek | Gizmodo (October 2024, included a quote from an email that claims a Catholic charity isn't Christian because they work with Haitian immigrants)

Who cut your pork chop, Governor DeSantis? by Art Cullen | Iowa Capital Dispatch (May 2023)

The Lies That Kill by Joshua P. Hill | Substack (September 2024)

How Trump's ”Mass Deportation” Plan Would Ruin America by Isabela Dias | Mother Jones (from the September and October 2024 Issue)

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