Immigration
The Trump administration hasn’t wasted time implementing significant immigration enforcement measures.
In an executive order signed Monday, 1,500 active-duty troops were deployed to the southern border, joining the 2,500 already stationed there, where they will assist Border Patrol with helicopter support, constructing barriers, and using military aircraft for the deportation of over 5,000 migrants. The order gives key cabinet officials two weeks to make recommendations to the President regarding “any other authority” needed to secure the border.
Meanwhile, in the admin’s first 24 hours, ICE arrested 308 illegal immigrants across the U.S.—primarily serious criminals—according to Border Czar Tom Homan. Additionally, the House bipartisanly passed the Laken Riley Act (263-156) on Wednesday. The bill, which allows for the detention of undocumented immigrants accused of theft-related crimes, now awaits President Trump’s signature.
ABOVE ALL, LOVE
Although you probably have no control over U.S. border policy, you are an important part of Christ’s mission to demonstrate his love for the world. Reflect his inexhaustible compassion by loving your neighbor humbly and unconditionally.
“We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and yet hates his brother or sister, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother or sister whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.”
1 John 4:19-20 (CSB) (read full passage)