Overview

• DHS has issued social media videos quoting Isaiah 6:8 and Proverbs 28:1 over footage of helicopters and tactical agents to frame deportations as a divine mission.
• The department posted the 19th-century painting “American Progress” online with the caption “A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending” to evoke a religious rationale for enforcement.
• Since July 4, a law signed by President Trump authorized 10,000 additional ICE hires and DHS has launched a major recruitment push to expand its agent ranks.
• Diverse faith organizations have filed their fourth federal lawsuit over ICE’s worship-space raids and are pressing for the release of detained clergy, including Imam Ayman Soliman and Pastor Daniel Fuentes Espinal.
• An NBC News analysis of recent polling finds growing public opposition to mass deportations under the current administration’s hardline immigration policies.