Axios: Nativity scenes become protest art in a season of deportations

Zoom out: The Interfaith Alliance this week launched a $300,000 digital and streaming ad campaign, set to "O Holy Night," that juxtaposed images of ICE agents detaining immigrants against scenes of families gathering together for Christmas.

• Interfaith Alliance president and CEO Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush tells Axios the ad campaign's message is similar to that of the Nativity scenes.
• "We're putting forth a vision of America rooted in what we think are the values of caring for one another, loving one another, protecting our neighbor."
• Raushenbush said the Holy Family was sojourners who lived in a land run by an authoritarian and the Christmas story is supposed to remind us that peace can arise from that crisis.

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