The Bible couldn’t be clearer about how Christians should treat immigrants. Leviticus 19:34: “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself”. Deuteronomy 10:17-19 hammers that home, saying explicitly that God “loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing. So you also must love the foreigner.”
On top of all that, Christ himself was born while Mary and Joseph were desperate refugees fleeing across a border in the hope of finding sanctuary from King Herod.
All of which means that being an ICE agent is fundamentally incompatible with being a Christian. This fact is something ICE officials and agents generally try to ignore, as it would raise some… awkward questions about the fate of their eternal souls.
All of which is why Democratic U.S. Representative from New Jersey LaMonica McIver asked ICE acting director Todd Lyons a simple question at yesterday’s meeting of the House Homeland Security Committee that left him stunned:
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
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LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons? pic.twitter.com/3UviZ3B6HB
McIver confirmed that Lyons was a religious man, then plainly asked him:
“How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?”
Lyons looked deeply uncomfortable, glanced down, and refused to answer the question. McIver pressed him:
“Do you think you’re going to hell, Mr Lyons?”
He’s going downstairs… they’re sending him downstairs.
Again, Lyons refused to answer. The gavel came down, and McIver was ordered to suspend. She then pointed out that “you guys are always talking about religion and the Bible. I just wanted to ask the question, right?” I mean, it’s a fair point!
It’s not my place to make the call on the fate of Lyons’ eternal soul. But all I’ll say is that I wouldn’t want to turn up at the Pearly Gates and face St Peter after a lifetime of profiting from doing the opposite of what God very, very clearly instructed Christians to do.
Lyons may have refused to answer questions at this oversight committee, but try that tactic in the afterlife, and you’re earning yourself a one-way ticket to the big downstairs.
