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Evangelicals in America are divided over immigration enforcement. So who gets to claim the side of God?

This week on The Sunday Story, 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?

This conversation was originally published as an episode of NPR's It's Been A Minute podcast: "Christians are having a Trump-sized reckoning."

This episode was produced and edited for The Sunday Story by Justine Yan and Liana Simstrom. The conversation was produced for It's Been a Minute by Corey Antonio Rose and edited by Neena Pathak. 

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