Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Why is the Department of Homeland Security quoting the Bible on Instagram?
In the Instagram video, uniformed border patrol personnel sling on vests and helmets. Grainy, night-vision footage of people, presumably migrants, moving through brush is spliced together with shots of helicopters hovering, all scored to a dark folk-harmony track that would sound at home in O Brother, Where Art Thou.A twangy narration plays over the top: “And I heard the voice of the Lord saying: Who shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said: Here am I; send me.”
The clip was posted not by a church or religious leader, but by the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol and the White House.
But the open invocation of the Bible to underscore the Trump administration’s deportation plan is new; the aesthetics of these videos suggest that the U.S.’s actions are not only exciting or noble, but also divinely ordained.
Why is the Department of Homeland Security quoting the Bible on Instagram?
The DHS is quoting the Bible in some of its Instagram posts extolling ICE deportations — Christian nationalism is getting more overt.
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