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"Now that Catholics are at the top, they’re the ones pushing policies that persecute the new generation of immigrants, Catholic and not. They mock the exhortations of church leaders to follow the Bible’s many commands to protect the stranger, the meek, the least and the poor by arguing that deporting the undocumented is somehow righteous."
"That’s the sad irony of seeing Catholicism have such a prominent role in Trump’s second term. The main defamers of Catholics in the United States have been Protestants since the days of the founding fathers. They cast successive waves of immigrants — Irish, Italians, Poles, Mexicans, Vietnamese — as evil, stupid immigrants beholden to Rome. They wrongly predicted each group would ruin the American way of life."
"A study released earlier this year by a coalition of evangelical and Catholic groups found that 61% of immigrants at risk of deportation in this country identify as Catholic, while nearly one-fifth of U.S. Catholics 'would be impacted' by someone being deported. The latter figure is nearly three times the rate that evangelicals face and four times the rate of other Christian denominations."
As a result:
"Members of my faith are in positions of power in this country like never before. Vice President JD Vance is a convert. A majority of the Supreme Court are practicing Catholics. Names of past Catholic diasporas like Kennedy, Bondi, Loeffler and Rubio dot Trump’s Cabinet."
But on the other hand:
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On the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Gustavo Arellano writes about the "sad irony" of the role Catholics are playing in the Trump administration and American society under Trump: as he notes, "2025 will go down as one of the best and worst years ever to be a Catholic in the United States."
On the one hand:
#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #Catholics #evangelicals
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In Trump's regime, Catholics are among the most powerful — and deported
Her brown face, green mantle and forgiving gaze is a mainstay of Southern California: In front yards.Gustavo Arellano (Los Angeles Times)
"It tends to pit the kind of middle class white upper middle class white person is the victim you know, the culture is changing and it's, it's toxic and it's terrible. And we have to fight against this, you know, horrible, evil culture. And it, it, it just, it's like a, it's kind of like a, I call it the rollercoaster paranoia."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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"Fox news is kind of a paranoia fear rollercoaster for folks who a lot of them are near the end of their life. They're seniors. They've been retired for years and years and they sit down, they turn it on. And it's this, kind of constant they're coming for you and we'll save you and don't worry."
~ Juliet Jeske
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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How Right-Wing Media Keeps Us Outraged | It's the Democracy, Stupid with Edwin Eisendrath & Juliet Jeske
Juliet watches Fox News so you don't have to. She breaks down why it's not really a news outlet — it's a fear-conditioning system.Edwin Eisendrath (Lincoln Square)
"No rejection, no detention, no zip ties or shackles. Jesus, Joseph and Mary immigrated to Egypt. Jesus was an immigrant."
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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"In this Christmas season, all of us who say we are Christian have to remember that in our faith story, a tyrant King seeks to kill all the babies in his empire out of spite and threat. Jesus’ parents take him to Egypt to keep him alive. They seek refuge and safety and are welcomed their."
~ Jacqui Lewis
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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Jesus was an immigrant
The church MUST respond to the current crisis with love.Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (Fierce Love)
"White Christians, who are America’s most conservative citizens, hold the most radically right wing views on immigration, per the lates information from the Public Religion Research Institute. ... They would definitely deport baby Jesus."
~ Joy-Ann Reid and Kahlil Greene
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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Fox's Jingle Bells crash-out, Kahlil, and me
The Foxies launch their annual "war on Christmas" charade by attacking me for boosting a young historian's postJoy-Ann Reid (Welcome to Joy's House!)
"We find those Americans who are the strongest adherents to that ideology, about one in 10 Americans, really look very distinct on immigration policy. They're, I think, the most draconian in their views about immigration."
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"I think, for me, the biggest takeaway from the [PRRI] survey is that the Trump administration's second term immigration agenda is mobilizing his base, particularly white evangelical Protestants and Christian nationalists, but it's really alienating a lot of other Americans across the board."
~ Melissa Deckman
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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Trump: An Unpopular Populist President?
Melissa Deckman reveals rapidly declining support for Trump's immigration policies.The Contrarian
"White Christian groups are the most likely to approve of the job Trump is doing handling immigration, including nearly three in four white evangelical Protestants. A majority of white mainline/non-evangelical Protestants (62%) and white Catholics (59%) also approve of Trump’s job on immigration."
~ PRRI
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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The New Immigration Crackdown: Where Americans Stand - PRRI
A new PRRI report considers how receptive Americans are to the second Trump administration’s handling of immigration and their support for several different…PRRI