'The Bible is not a policy manual’: Christians reckon with immigration under Trump

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Evangelicals in America are divided over immigration enforcement. So who gets to claim the side of God?<br/><br/>This week on <em>The Sunday Story</em>, NPR’s Brittany Luse sits down with two people who think a lot about the separation of church and state: NPR’s religion correspondent, Jason DeRose, and the Rev. Dr. Gabriel Salguero, president and founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition. DeRose and Salguero unpack the rhetoric of conservative white Evangelicals and discuss what happens when the government uses scripture to justify policy. How does the Christian tenet of “welcoming the stranger” come to bear on current debates about U.S. immigration enforcement and war?<br/><br/><em>This conversation was originally published as an episode of NPR’s </em><a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510317/its-been-a-minute"target="_blank" ><em>It’s Been A Minute</em></a><em> podcast: “Christians are having a Trump-sized reckoning.”</em><br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>