A Southern California church is protesting U.S. immigration policy by displaying a nativity with Joseph, Mary and Jesus isolated in their own chain-linked cages topped with barbed wire.
The target of the protest, according to Fox News, is a Trump Administration policy—ended last year—that separated children from families who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
In a Facebook post Saturday, the Rev. Karen Clark Ristine, senior pastor at Claremont United Methodist Church, said she was “stirred to tears” by the nativity, which had been in the planning stages since she arrived at the congregation in July.
Her post included words from a “theological statement” displayed near the outdoor nativity.
“In a time in our country when refugee families seek asylum at our borders and are unwillingly separated from one another, we consider the most well-known refugee family in the world,” the statement reads. “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the Holy Family. Shortly after the birth of Jesus, Joseph and Mary were forced to flee with their young son from Nazareth to Egypt to escape King Herod, a tyrant. They feared persecution and death.
“What if this family sought refuge in our country today?
“Imagine Joseph and Mary separated at the border and Jesus no older than two taken from his mother and placed behind the fences of a Border Patrol detention center as more than 5,500 children…
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