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‘The holy family is in hiding’: nativity scenes at US churches push back on ICE

todayDecember 12, 2025

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Displays include handcuffed baby Jesus and Mary wearing a gas mask in wake of Trump’s immigration crackdown

Satirical holiday displays mocking Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, portraying the newborn Jesus and his parents, Mary and Joseph, as victims of heavy-handed tactics by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), have appeared across the US.

One striking retelling of the Christmas story, at Lake Street church in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, features baby Jesus lying in a manger in the snow – but wrapped in the kind of thin, foil blankets given out in emergencies and regularly as bedding to ICE detainees, and with his wrists zip-tied.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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