A Nativity scene on display at a Chicago-area church depicts baby Jesus with zip-tied wrists and Mary and Joseph in gas masks in what its organizers called "a scene of forced family separation" amid a federal crackdown on crime and undocumented immigrants .

The display at the Lake Street Church of Evanston, about 15 miles outside Chicago, also shows the infant in a mylar-style emergency blanket and immigration agents with covered faces in helmets and robes to make them look like Roman soldiers.

"This installation is not subtle because the crisis it addresses is not abstract," the church said in a social media post.

The church said the depiction is supposed to match the experience of migrants in detention facilities and of community members, including children, who were detained durin

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