Faith Shapes Views at a Church of Immigrants in Texas

“For the men and women of Christian Mercy Church, immigration politics are intensely personal. A vote in Congress could separate families or reunite them, lift fear or upend lives.

The congregation is made up of immigrants and the children of immigrants; they live within a few miles of the border, where an enormous Mexican flag juts into the clouds just the other side of the Rio Grande. The stakes are high, but many here do not dwell on how changes in immigration law could affect their families. They ask instead:

What would please God?”

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