A reverend compared immigration enforcement agents to Judas, the betrayer of Jesus in the Bible.
“Before Christ was hung on the cross and executed, before he was kidnapped, before he was surveilled, before he crossed some borders he wasn’t supposed to, he was turned into the authorities by a friend, by Judas, for 30 pieces of silver,” Reverend Liv Thomas claimed, as per a report from The Daily Caller. “You councilpeople, by not standing actively against ICE, are moving like Judas. For what, 30 pieces of silver? For some votes?”
“If you do not change your ways, you are selling out your neighbors, our neighbors, hardworking, kind people, for what?” Thomas added. “You are actively allowing for kidnappings to take place in broad daylight.”
The Louisiana reverend’s statement comes as Governor Jeff Landry (R) signed a partnership with ICE in May to enforce immigration laws.“If you’re here illegally and you engage in criminal activity, you are going to be deported or sent to jail,” Landry said at the time. “Operation GEAUX is the kind of historic, one-of-a-kind partnership that the Trump Administration is looking for to fulfill the President’s promises of restoring law and order! Making America Safe Again.”
Operation GEAUX is described as a “proactive approach to safeguarding the citizens of Louisiana through the identification and removal of criminal aliens from the community” and “aligns state and federal resources to identify criminal aliens arrested, incarcerated, or on supervised release in Louisiana and collaborate with OHS officials to effectively and efficiently process these criminal aliens for removal and deportation.”
