sey it with me now

while the right goes all sorts of ridiculous, let’s talk about samuel sey…

…he’s an interesting one.

he’s a ghanese canadian (born in ghana, but immigrated to canada when he was a wee lad), who came to ohio, married a woman he loved, and became a pastor that’s a bit of a darling with the red hat crowd due to his outspoken support of ice from his well known christian blog. typical american dream kinda journey.

he was picked up by ice a couple weeks ago for overstaying his visa for several years and is being deported. oopsy.

he tried to say it was a “clerical error” but ice has confirmed he has no pending applications or hearings scheduled AND that “he has accepted voluntary departure”, which i’ll assume means going back across what is literally the largest unprotected border on earth, the us/canadian border. ya know, the one with mainly white people on the other side so even with all the trade war bullshit ain’t nobody trying to build THAT wall, apparently.

it’s getting interesting – because this is a darling of the right, now ensnared in their own bullshit, and forced to literally practice what he preaches, their reaction is a bit different than the usual “go back to where you came from, illegal!” response. there are calls for prayers, and donations, and compassion for his wife and kids now left without dad. trumplicans who are constantly shouting about these scum who take advantage of our system are now swearing this must just be a paperwork error. an “i” that wasn’t dotted. a “t” that wasn’t crossed. something OTHER than the immigrant’s actual fault. i’m not saying they shouldn’t react this way…i’m just pointing out that, typically, they never do. but now they’ve showed they can, so why not make this the universal response. there’s a book out there, that hasn’t been banned (yet), that says something about “love your fellow man”, not just the fellow man that backs your racists ass views. maybe give it a glance again.