Immigration and the Dehumanizing of the “Other” in the United States

Abstract

Immigration has become the defining issue of our moment. People are on the move like never before, and countries are scrambling to deal with both the influx, and the loss, of people on the move. In the United States, our former and current president, Trump, has made expelling immigrants his top priority, and we are witnessing the revamping of the Department of Homeland Security, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to capture and expel immigrants at an alarming rate, disrupting peaceful communities and denying those detained due process as required by the U.S. Constitution. What should be our response as followers of Jesus? How do we need to be, as Andrew Walls stated, “out of step” with our society when it comes to supporting the most vulnerable among us?