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Chicago Council on Global Affairs, September 6, 2019

“Only 23 percent of Americans want to separate
immigrant children from parents.”

Proverbs 28:27

“Those who give to the poor will lack nothing,
but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.”

Health & Human Services Inspector General Report, September 3, 2019

“According to program directors and mental health clinicians, separated [immigrant] children exhibited more fear, feelings of abandonment, and post-traumatic stress than did children who were not separated.”

James 4:17

“So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it,
for him it is sin.”

World Relief CEO Tim Breene, August 21, 2019

“This is a crucial moment for Christians to stand up for the vulnerable. World Relief upholds a biblical view that preserving the family unit is paramount and people of all ages should be treated with dignity and respect. Children belong with their parents and not in jail-like detention facilities.”

1 John 3:17

“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?”

President Donald Trump, August 21, 2019

“I am the Chosen One.”

James 1:26

“If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.”

Jorge Ramos, Univision, August 10, 2019

“When the most powerful man in the world uses such toxic rhetoric, we should not be surprised when others mimic him.”

Luke 17:1-2

“Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come. It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.’ ”

Leith Anderson, President, National Association of Evangelicals,
July 23, 2019

“The Bible is a book with many refugee stories from Genesis to Jesus. Just as the Bible includes refugees, we want America to include refugees.
It’s the Christian thing to do.”

Leviticus 19:33

“When a foreigner resides with you in your land,
you must not oppress him.”

Clergy of Washington National Cathedral, July 30, 2019

“When does silence become complicity? What will it take for us all to say, with one voice, that we have had enough? The question is less about the president’s sense of decency, but of ours.”

2 Corinthians 5:10

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.”

President Donald Trump, August 5, 2019

“In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul.”

Galatians 6:7

“God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”

US Representative Veronica Escobar (D-TX), August 4, 2019

“We have not just a gun epidemic in this country,
we have a hate epidemic.”

1 John 3:15

“Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and
you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.”

Evangelical Immigration Table, July 17, 2019

“More than 1,350 evangelical pastors and leaders have signed a letter to the president, vice president and members of Congress, urging them to respect U.S. laws that protect children and families seeking asylum.”

Deuteronomy 10:18

God “enacts justice for orphans and widows, and he loves immigrants, giving them food and clothing.”