Jason DeRose

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Up First from NPR · 'The Bible is not a policy manual’: Christians reckon with immigration under Trump · 3 May 2026 podcast

I mean, look at, you know, any of the polling that's looked at who supports Donald Trump.

It tends to be white evangelicals, white conservative evangelicals by huge, huge numbers.

And so in those congregations, I think there's a lot of focus on rule of law and the importance of...

paying attention to what the government wants and understanding that the government is doing something for the good of the people.

But I think that sometimes that is thought of as the only way that churches are talking about this.

Well, I think it's not uncommon for, say, a president to make a reference to scripture in, say, a State of the Union address or in a speech, especially if the president is speaking at some sort of memorial service or something like that.

But what I'm looking at is in sort of official or quasi-official capacity.

So the Department of Homeland Security has

produced a number of videos that it tweets or puts on Instagram that quote scripture.

There's a famous one that came out early this year that begins with, "'Blessed are the peacemakers,' and then with the song, "'Everybody wants to rule the world,' covered by Lord."

From the Hunger Games.

Okay.

Plays while video is shown of DHS agents and DHS helicopters going in to arrest people.

So, you know, here you have this quotation from the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes.

contrasted with law enforcement and military-style helicopters.

There's another instance that I found very interesting.

There is a lengthy, lengthy tweet from Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

It's more than 1,300 words.

tweet in which he lays out a biblical justification for the Trump administration's immigration policies, where he takes to task what he calls liberal people of faith who say that caring for the stranger is an important biblical value.

And he sort of

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