The Southern Baptist Convention has long supported amnesty for illegal aliens via its Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Helmed originally by Richard Land, an amnesty advocate, then Russell Moore, who first partnered with the Soros-backed Evangelical Immigration Table, and now Brent Leatherwood.
The competing Center for Baptist Leadership pointed out that the Evangelical Immigration Table used the Southern Baptist Convention letterhead to advocate for the latest amnesty bill filed in Congress.
Maria Elvira Salazar’s “Dignity Act” (H.R. 3599, 118th Congress) is a 400-page amnesty-for-servitude scheme dressed up as “border security.” Core provisions:
- Immediate “Dignity Status” renewable 5.5-year work permits for ~11 million illegals who pass a background check and pay $5k.
- Optional “Redemption Path” after another $5k and 200 hrs of English/civics classes to become green-card eligible in 5–7 years—citizenship still barred for felons.
- Mandatory E-Verify nationwide phased in over 2 years, but enforcement is toothless: no jail time for employers who ignore it.
- Creates a 13-year “Border Infrastructure Fund” funded by visa fees; authorizes 700 miles of fencing and more tech at ports of entry.
- Establishes 60+ “Humanitarian campuses” (detention-lite) on the southern border; asylum seekers wait there instead of being released.
- Recaptures 200k unused green cards from 1992-2022 and hands them out via new merit-based lottery.
- Farmworker carve-out: two separate tracks—H-2C expansion and a fast-track to green cards for 1 million ag workers already here.
- Dreamers get green cards after 2 years of college or military service; age cap 18 on arrival date (tighter than past bills).
- No new guest-worker visas for tech; keeps H-1B cap flat.
- Enforcement trigger gimmick: nothing activates until DHS “certifies operational control” of the border—same loophole that killed the 2013 Gang of Eight bill.
The net result of the bill is amnesty now and gutting the accomplishments of the Big Beautiful Bill. The Southern Baptist Convention is publicly supporting this bill. The ERLC responded to the uproar:
The ERLC has never supported amnesty and never will. The ERLC has consistently advocated for policies that reflect the will of SBC messengers who have, for over a decade, supported strong border security and other measures, including a pathway to legal status for those willing to follow appropriate restitutionary processes. This is not amnesty, which requires nothing of those who receive the benefit.
The irony of the ERLC statement is that they advocated amnesty in the same breath they opposed it. Pathways for legal status are amnesty, regardless of the actual hoops that NGOs (some of them Southern Baptist) would likely help illegal aliens pass through anyway. Denying invaders the right to vote and the duty to serve on a jury is hardly a punishment for someone who views America as an economic zone from which they can send money back to their home country.
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So then why would patriotic American Christians remain Baptist? Sounds to me like the Convention bigwigs are talking out of both sides of their corrupt mouths – again.
The SBC motto should be “race-mixing, miscegenation, and jew-worship above all else.”
The SBC is a treasonous and subversive organization and should be disbanded.