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Milo Yiannopoulos held in ICE custody

Far-right political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is being held at a detention center, according to the agency’s online detainee database. The British native served as chief of staff for the rapper Ye, formerly Kanye West, and was in Louisiana ahead of Ye’s scheduled concert...

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Leviticus 19:34 (BSB)
The blindspotwhat the coverage leaves out

The stranger in custody

A report about detention rarely pauses on the dignity owed to any person facing the state's power. Scripture calls believers to remember the foreigner and to seek justice tempered with mercy, even for a controversial figure.

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Leviticus 19:34 (BSB)

OUR READING

Even reporting on a controversial figure's detention is a chance to remember that every person, however polarizing, bears God's image.

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Themes · immigration enforcement · public figure controversy · due process

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Leviticus 19:34 (BSB)

OUR NOTE

Calls God's people to treat the foreigner or sojourner with justice and care, relevant to immigration enforcement stories.

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Romans 13:1 (BSB)

OUR NOTE

Frames the authority of civil government, including immigration enforcement, under God's sovereign ordering.
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