The immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is revealing divisions among Christian leaders across the country about appropriate religious responses to ICE’s most aggressive enforcement tactics.
Episcopal bishops in New Hampshire and Minnesota have in recent days told their flocks to be prepared even for death in order to protect the vulnerable. Clergy members are among those, along with union leaders and others, calling for a general strike Friday to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A network of progressive groups that had urged members of the clergy to come to Minneapolis later this week said its event was spurred by “a crisis of faith communities failing to live into a vision of Beloved Community,” advertising the call to action as an extension of the religious mantle of the 1960s civil rights marches.
