Evangelicals backed Trump. Now pastors denounce ICE crackdown hitting their churches.

Amid ICE arrests and detentions, attendance has dropped and churches have closed. 'You're deporting the future of American Christianity,' a Latino evangelical leader said.

Pastor Erick Salgado used to preach to his Brooklyn congregation that they shouldn’t fear immigration officers because “they are after criminals.”

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