A conservative news show interviewed

“authorities” about all the kids from

failed Latin American states

rushing across the U.S. border from Mexico.

So, evangelical Reverend So and So,

in a moment of utter

compassion, said, “Send them back after

a warm meal or two.” Did anyone wonder

how familiar the good reverend

was with the Gospels? Then a commercial

for starving, hair-lipped, little, black

kids came on. Perhaps it’s

fine to send a few bucks over there as long

as the hair-lipped, little, black kids

stayed there and not here.

Now that is the kind of jingoist, xenophobe,

nativist compassion any individual-salvation-

in-Jesus-Christ evangelical could love.