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Podcaster Samuel Sey was a vocal supporter of ICE. Then he was detained

Published October 29, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

Supporters rally for President Donald Trump during his visit to see the controversial border wall prototypes on March 13, 2018 in San Diego, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Samuel Sey spent the past two years telling American Christians that the Bible demands what Immigration and Customs Enforcement does. “Christian ethics do not denounce deportations,” the conservative Christian blogger and podcaster wrote in Feb. 2025. “They demand it.” Immigration was a privilege and not a right, he argued, and America “doesn’t owe anything to people born outside of the country — including me.” Should his own residency ever be ended, he allowed, that would be “inconvenient — not unjust.”

Now Sey, who is originally from Ghana and grew up in Canada, has found himself swept up in the very deportation apparatus he spent years cheering on .

The resulting uproar has exposed a particularly ugly…