South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is under fire for a series of recent recruitment videos that quote scripture and showcase militarized immigration enforcement, sparking fierce criticism from faith leaders and civil rights advocates.

In a strongly worded opinion piece for MSNBC published Monday evening, Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, vice president of programs and strategy at the Interfaith Alliance, condemned the ad campaign as “a confession of moral bankruptcy.”

Graves-Fitzsimmons pointed to the Trump administration’s past efforts to justify controversial immigration policies using religious language, a strategy he believes is being revived with these new DHS materials.

In particular, he criticized a pair of promotional videos released in the pas

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