Samuel Sey is your typical right wing Christian Nationalist. He hates LGBTQ+ people, opposes abortion, and thinks women should be quiet unless they’re saying stuff that their husbands and pastors say they can say.
He is also a big fan of ICE:
Or maybe I should say he was a fan of ICE:
Conservative Christian blogger and podcaster Samuel Sey remains in custody after immigration officers arrested him Oct. 21 at the Columbus airport and has accepted voluntary departure, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to The Dispatch.
Sey, who lives in Ohio, entered the United States legally in 2022 but stayed beyond his authorized admission period, a DHS spokesperson said.
“Sey has no pending applications and accepted voluntary departure,” the spokesperson said. “He will remain in ICE custody until removed from the United States.”
His family sent a statement:
It appears though that Sey has done nothing to rectify his immigration status over the last 4 years. Because come on—if you knew you had overstayed your visa and you retained an attorney to fix everything, would you consider 4 years of silence on their part to be a confirmation they had solved the problem?
But the whole “rules for thee but not for me” is not confined to Sey. I’ve written a few times about the Christian Nationalist emphasis on “toxic empathy”. And so it’s no surprise that the 2 women from my first link show up again in this discussion.
Allie Beth Stuckey, the author of the Toxic Empathy screed, had this to say about undocumented immigrants:
She must be livid at her friend Samuel Sey then right? Nope—see, he deserves, dare I say it?, EMPATHY!:
Another big Toxic Empathy proponent is Megan Basham, the conservative commentator who only recently found out that Mr. Rogers was not in fact MAGA:
But please don’t worry—the situation with Sey is completely different:
Allow me to quote Spalding Gray in “Swimming to Cambodia”:
And Roland Joffe came to me and said, “Spalding, I hope this film has taught you that morality is not a movable feast.” And I get dizzy, because I see it moving all the time.
And the digging that anti-Christian Nationalist people are doing seems to indicate that Sey committed immigration fraud by entering the US on a visitor visa and then marrying an American citizen. And if that’s true—or if its not—it does not change the brazen hypocrisy on display by these people.
It’s clear that Sey and his Christian Nationalist buddies felt their ideology and fawning support would insulate them from the damages of the Trump administration. And so this remains evergreen:
I’ll leave you with the earworm I gave you: