Ed Young calls immigrants ‘undesirables,’ ‘garbage’ and ‘raff’
Young claimed drug and cartel leaders from Mexico have infiltrated the world and America through the southern border and set up a “massive welfare state.”
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Ed Young, Second Baptist Church senior pastor, and former Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) president, has drawn criticism for calling undocumented migrants crossing the U.S. border from Mexico “undesirables” and “garbage” during a Feb. 25 sermon.
The SBC pastor, whose multi-campus megachurch is located in Houston, preached on the Parable of the Lost Sheep found in Luke 15.
During his sermon, Young began to rant about the current border crisis, calling those who have willingly let undocumented migrants cross the border “fools.”
“Central America, South America, now countries in Asia, China, India, Russia, Iran, Iraq, just pick a number,” Young told his congregation, “they have sent not those who are huddled masses longing to be free. They have emptied their jails and their prisons, they’ve taken their gangs, and they have gone across the border and now we have 8 to 10 million of them scattered across the United States of America.”