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‘ICE was here’: Massachusetts church displays message in Nativity scene
WTNH.COM ^ | Joe Cortez,Melanie DaSilva

Posted on 12/04/2025 8:00:58 AM PST by Puppage

DEDHAM, Mass. (WPRI) — A Nativity display at a church in Dedham, Massachusetts, is sparking a debate.

The display outside Saint Susanna Parish now features a sign that reads “ICE was here” instead of the figures of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus.

Below it, another message claims “the holy family is safe in our church” and instructs people to call a number if they see immigration agents.

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1 posted on 12/04/2025 8:00:58 AM PST by Puppage
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To: Puppage

Mary and Joseph were in Bethlehem. Of course they were safe. They were in their own hometown where they belonged.


2 posted on 12/04/2025 8:02:59 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: Puppage

Revoke their tax exempt status.


3 posted on 12/04/2025 8:03:21 AM PST by Kleon
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To: Puppage

So were deadly criminals.


4 posted on 12/04/2025 8:04:49 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: Puppage

Fence in Dedham, and send ALL illegals there.


5 posted on 12/04/2025 8:05:27 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Mary and Joseph weren't just "in" Bethlehem, they traveled there as directed, even with Mary pregnant, to be counted in the Roman census in Joseph's home town.

ICE is helping all these invaders return to their home countries to be counted correctly in their census there.

6 posted on 12/04/2025 8:06:00 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Responsibility2nd
And Mary and Joseph were following a decree ordered by Caesar Augustus. They were not breaking the law.
7 posted on 12/04/2025 8:06:03 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Puppage

Church≠ moral, honest nor a mark of honor.
Many churches strive and attain a moral vision and mission. Many do not. This church is an intellectual & moral failure.


8 posted on 12/04/2025 8:06:58 AM PST by JayGalt (For America!)
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To: Puppage

Libs are so immature. SMH


9 posted on 12/04/2025 8:07:44 AM PST by V_TWIN (America........so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: JayGalt

Wonder how many virtue hoarding members of this church are sponsoring a migrant? The need to put their money where their mouth is, instead of demanding my tax dollars to support illegal activities.


10 posted on 12/04/2025 8:10:15 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness)
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To: Puppage

This kind of stuff is why I do not attend any church anymore.


11 posted on 12/04/2025 8:10:18 AM PST by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: Puppage

Thos virtue signaling has got to stop.


12 posted on 12/04/2025 8:11:29 AM PST by sauropod
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To: Puppage

Just like academia and the media, the left hijacks traditional institutions and corrupts them fully... like a virus.


13 posted on 12/04/2025 8:11:41 AM PST by Silver78
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“In previous years, he’s used the church’s Nativity to comment on ...gun control..”

Gee, I wonder if this person would like to live in Jamaica for an extended period of time, with their Gun Court laws and having one of the most appallingly high homicide and violent crime rates in the Western world.


14 posted on 12/04/2025 8:13:14 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Puppage

Street theater disguised as religion.


15 posted on 12/04/2025 8:15:52 AM PST by pfflier
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To: Puppage

What happened to no one is above the law?

Now I remember. It’s no republican is above the law.


16 posted on 12/04/2025 8:16:42 AM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It only makes sense if you are a leftist and believe Jews are illegal immigrants in Israel.

Logic and factual fail, but again, they are leftists.


17 posted on 12/04/2025 8:17:26 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Its always whites doing this sort of thing for people who wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire. It’s the oddest phenomenon I have ever seen.

BTW this pastor has a textbook “loony leftist” look in his eyes.


18 posted on 12/04/2025 8:18:50 AM PST by Silver78
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To: packrat35

It’s why I go to a non-denominational church 3X a month and drive 150 once a month to attend mass.

Mind you, I was a Catholic deacon and my brother a priest.


19 posted on 12/04/2025 8:19:02 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Puppage

For anyone living in a Blue State urban area, this is no surprise at all. I drive by churches and synagogues every day on my way to work in the city and their billboards always - ALWAYS - have some snarky, trendy liberal political message. They are smart enough to not be overtly political, but is this type of BS. Black Lives Matter. Jesus was an Immigrant. I even see “We Support Ukraine” although it escapes me how that is remotely tied to religion.


20 posted on 12/04/2025 8:56:01 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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