Last updated 3/6/2025
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)
James Dobson on the Border: We Need a Wall to Keep Out the Poor | Love, Joy, Feminism (July 2019)
More about attitudes towards immigrants 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)
Trump won't ban immigration arrests at churches. Now clergy are weighing how to resist By Giovanna Dell'Orto, Luis Andres Henao and Deepa Bharath | AP News (January 2025)
Immigration arrests in churches? Some clergy say not so fast by Andrea Castillo | Los Angeles Times (January 2025)
The pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology by Jason DeRose | NPR (February 2025)
it's hard to fuck up converting to Catholicism so bad that you wind up being specifically admonished by the Pope | grison-in-space (February 2025, comments on the above issue)
He did not simply end by invoking Mary – he invoked Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe. | darnedanddarted (February 2025, continues the above thread)
Whose Faith Matters? The Fight for Religious Liberty Beyond the Christian Right by Elizabeth Reiner Platt, Katherine M. Franke, Kira Shepherd, and Lilia Hadjiivanova | Columbia Law School (2019, includes examples of Christians claiming religious freedom as a motivation to help migrants)
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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