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MANY CHRISTIAN VOTERS IN US SEE IMMIGRATION AS A CRISIS. HOW TO ADDRESS IT IS
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MANY CHRISTIAN VOTERS IN US SEE IMMIGRATION AS A CRISIS. HOW TO ADDRESS IT IS
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FILE - Migrants eat and wait for assistance while camping on a street in
downtown El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Christian voters and faith
leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants –
but when it comes to support for immigration policies, from border security to
legalization options for migrants already in the U.S., views diverge broadly.
(AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
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FILE - Venezuelan migrants pray at a camping site outside the Sacred Heart
Church in downtown El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres
Leighton, File)
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FILE - This combination of photos shows President Joe Biden and former President
Donald Trump during visits to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas both on Thursday,
Feb. 29, 2024. Fueled by unprecedented numbers of asylum seekers and illegal
border crossings, immigration has risen to a top concern for Americans in the
2024 presidential election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Eric Gay, File)
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FILE - The Most Rev. Mark Seitz, the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, stands
near supplies and clothes in a shelter for migrants on the grounds of the
Catholic Diocese of El Paso in El Paso, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. “Here
in El Paso, we cannot get away with living the faith abstractly. We don’t say,
‘Show me your papers.’ As Christians we say, ‘How can I help you in your
suffering?’” Seitz said. “This is not a political issue in the first instance,
it’s about putting into practice what Jesus Christ taught through the Church.”
(AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi, File)
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FILE - Senior Pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress addresses attendees before Vice
President Mike Pence made comments at First Baptist Church Dallas during a
Celebrate Freedom Rally in Dallas, Sunday, June 28, 2020. “At First Baptist
Church in Dallas we do not check for green cards----that’s government’s
responsibility,” Jeffress says. “The Bible teaches that God created the
institution of government to protect its citizens … Christians have a duty to
obey the laws government establishes which would include immigration laws.” (AP
Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
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6 of 11 |
FILE - Migrants pray before turning themselves in to immigration authorities in
downtown El Paso, Texas on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton,
File)
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FILE - Church volunteers serve garlic bread to migrants camping outside the
Sacred Heart Church in downtown El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP
Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
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FILE - A woman carries her child after she and other migrants crossed the Rio
Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico to be processed by U.S. Customs and
Border Protection, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP
Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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FILE - Migrants arrive at a gate in the border fence after crossing from Ciudad
Juarez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas, in the early hours of Thursday, May 11,
2023. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
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FILE - Migrants wake up at a campsite outside Sacred Heart Church in downtown El
Paso, Texas on Tuesday morning, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
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FILE - Reproductions of passports and clothes worn by migrants are placed on the
arms of a cross at La Ermita, a shrine to the Virgin Mary built five decades ago
by Cuban exiles, in Miami seen on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, in Miami. At bottom
right is a sign with the Biblical verse, “You shall love the stranger, for you
were strangers.” (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)
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Many Christian voters in US see immigration as a crisis. How to address it is
where they differ.
1 of 11 |
FILE - Migrants eat and wait for assistance while camping on a street in
downtown El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Christian voters and faith
leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants –
but when it comes to support for immigration policies, from border security to
legalization options for migrants already in the U.S., views diverge broadly.
(AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
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FILE - Migrants eat and wait for assistance while camping on a street in
downtown El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Christian voters and faith
leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants –
but when it comes to support for immigration policies, from border security to
legalization options for migrants already in the U.S., views diverge broadly.
(AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
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Leighton, File)
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FILE - This combination of photos shows President Joe Biden and former President
Donald Trump during visits to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas both on Thursday,
Feb. 29, 2024. Fueled by unprecedented numbers of asylum seekers and illegal
border crossings, immigration has risen to a top concern for Americans in the
2024 presidential election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Eric Gay, File)
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3 of 11
FILE - This combination of photos shows President Joe Biden and former President
Donald Trump during visits to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas both on Thursday,
Feb. 29, 2024. Fueled by unprecedented numbers of asylum seekers and illegal
border crossings, immigration has risen to a top concern for Americans in the
2024 presidential election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Eric Gay, File)
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FILE - The Most Rev. Mark Seitz, the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, stands
near supplies and clothes in a shelter for migrants on the grounds of the
Catholic Diocese of El Paso in El Paso, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. “Here
in El Paso, we cannot get away with living the faith abstractly. We don’t say,
‘Show me your papers.’ As Christians we say, ‘How can I help you in your
suffering?’” Seitz said. “This is not a political issue in the first instance,
it’s about putting into practice what Jesus Christ taught through the Church.”
(AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi, File)
Read More
4 of 11
FILE - The Most Rev. Mark Seitz, the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, stands
near supplies and clothes in a shelter for migrants on the grounds of the
Catholic Diocese of El Paso in El Paso, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. “Here
in El Paso, we cannot get away with living the faith abstractly. We don’t say,
‘Show me your papers.’ As Christians we say, ‘How can I help you in your
suffering?’” Seitz said. “This is not a political issue in the first instance,
it’s about putting into practice what Jesus Christ taught through the Church.”
(AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi, File)
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FILE - Senior Pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress addresses attendees before Vice
President Mike Pence made comments at First Baptist Church Dallas during a
Celebrate Freedom Rally in Dallas, Sunday, June 28, 2020. “At First Baptist
Church in Dallas we do not check for green cards----that’s government’s
responsibility,” Jeffress says. “The Bible teaches that God created the
institution of government to protect its citizens … Christians have a duty to
obey the laws government establishes which would include immigration laws.” (AP
Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
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5 of 11
FILE - Senior Pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress addresses attendees before Vice
President Mike Pence made comments at First Baptist Church Dallas during a
Celebrate Freedom Rally in Dallas, Sunday, June 28, 2020. “At First Baptist
Church in Dallas we do not check for green cards----that’s government’s
responsibility,” Jeffress says. “The Bible teaches that God created the
institution of government to protect its citizens … Christians have a duty to
obey the laws government establishes which would include immigration laws.” (AP
Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
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FILE - Migrants pray before turning themselves in to immigration authorities in
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FILE - Migrants pray before turning themselves in to immigration authorities in
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FILE - Church volunteers serve garlic bread to migrants camping outside the
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Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
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FILE - Church volunteers serve garlic bread to migrants camping outside the
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FILE - A woman carries her child after she and other migrants crossed the Rio
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Border Protection, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP
Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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FILE - A woman carries her child after she and other migrants crossed the Rio
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FILE - Reproductions of passports and clothes worn by migrants are placed on the
arms of a cross at La Ermita, a shrine to the Virgin Mary built five decades ago
by Cuban exiles, in Miami seen on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, in Miami. At bottom
right is a sign with the Biblical verse, “You shall love the stranger, for you
were strangers.” (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)
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right is a sign with the Biblical verse, “You shall love the stranger, for you
were strangers.” (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)
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MIAMI (AP) — Christian voters and faith leaders have long been in the frontlines
of providing assistance to migrants — but when it comes to support for
immigration policies, from border security to legalization options for migrants
already in the U.S., priorities diverge broadly.
Both President Joe Biden and GOP challenger Donald Trump traveled to the border
in Texas last Thursday to present their vision of how to fix what most agree is
a broken system — immigration has risen to a top concern for Americans in this
presidential election year.
At the border with Mexico in El Paso, Texas, Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz believes
that a nation has the right to a secure and orderly border, and to vet those who
want to cross it, but he emphasizes the Church’s social teaching of caring for
the poorest and most vulnerable.
“Here in El Paso ... we don’t say, ‘Show me your papers.’ As Christians we say,
‘How can I help you in your suffering?’” Seitz said, who leads the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee. “This is not a political
issue in the first instance, it’s about putting into practice what Jesus Christ
taught through the Church.”
Still in Texas, a flashpoint not only in crossings but in an escalating battle
between the federal and state governments over border management, a prominent
megachurch pastor and Trump supporter said his church welcomes everyone — but
the faithful also have an obligation to obey the law.
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“At First Baptist Church in Dallas we do not check for green cards — that’s
government’s responsibility,” the Rev. Robert Jeffress said in an email. “The
Bible teaches that God created the institution of government to protect its
citizens. … Christians have a duty to obey the laws government establishes which
would include immigration laws.”
Whether a humanitarian or a security emphasis resonates the most varies among
and within Christian denominations — like the white evangelicals who
overwhelmingly supported Trump in the 2020 election or the Catholics who were
split almost evenly between him and Biden.
According to a survey released this week by the Pew Research Center, majorities
of white Catholics and Protestants, both evangelical and nonevangelical,
consider that the big influx at the U.S.-Mexican border is a crisis for the
United States — a definition that many migrant advocates and Democrats have long
disputed.
Only about 3 in 10 Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated (or
“nones”) say the large number of migrants seeking to enter the U.S. is a
“crisis,” although in each group, about 4 in 10 say it’s a “major problem.”
Those saying it is not a problem are minorities in the single digits across
denominations.
More revealing to policy options is the reason for the influx that Christians
cited in the survey.
When asked why they think large numbers of migrants are trying to cross the
border, about 7 in 10 white Catholics and evangelicals said that the belief that
U.S. immigration policies will make it easy to stay in the country once they
arrive is a “major reason,” compared to 44% of the “nones” and 52% of Black
Protestants. Both groups were more likely to cite violence in their home
countries as a major reason why migrants are seeking to enter the U.S. At least
65% of all religious groups cited good economic opportunities in the U.S. as a
“major reason.”
Among evangelicals, there is nuance in views about specific issues under the
broader umbrella of migration, said Matthew Soerens, national coordinator for
the Evangelical Immigration Table, an immigrant advocacy organization.
Most want more border security and respect for the rule of law, and there’s
growing concern that immigration is an economic burden to the U.S., Soerens
said. Yet he noted that even many evangelicals who voted for Trump in 2020 favor
permanent legal status for Afghans and support refugee resettlement and a path
for citizenship for those in the U.S. illegally.
“I think many Americans (and probably some Members of Congress) read
evangelicals’ broad support for former President Trump in the primaries thus far
as an unqualified affirmation of his immigration policy positions,” Soerens said
via email.
But he said his organization’s research and his experience with local churches
suggests that evangelicals “actually have more nuanced views — absolutely
wanting something done about the border … but also very open to more
comprehensive immigration solutions including for the undocumented.”
Similarly, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy wing
— the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission — said that increased enforcement
and border security should be paired with more accessible legal pathways.
“But far too often, our toxic politics pit security and reform against one
another, ensuring no action is taken while citizens, migrants, officers, border
facilities, ministries, and local communities are all overwhelmed,” said ERLC
leader Brent Leatherwood. “Too many leaders have made the calculation that this
cost is acceptable so that partisan trench warfare can be waged. That’s not just
a failure of leadership; it’s a failure to be humane.”
From tiny evangelical churches in Tucson, Arizona, or in Hialeah, Florida, to
major faith-based aid organizations like Global Refuge, which was known until
this year as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Christian groups across
the country often take the lead in helping migrants with shelter, food, and
legal as well as schooling assistance.
In Miami, a major destination city for migrants across the Caribbean and Latin
America, many travel first to La Ermita, a shrine to the Virgin Mary built five
decades ago by Cuban exiles — a growing community where Trump remains widely
popular. Its rector has chosen migration as the meditation theme for this Lent,
and two large crosses now flank the entrance, with reproductions of passports
and clothes worn by migrants hanging on their arms.
Behind them, in English and Spanish, is an exhortation to pray for migrants and
the Biblical verse “You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers.”
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collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc.
The AP is solely responsible for this content.
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