Pro-ICE MAGA blogger Samuel Sey, 39, had a message for Christians who opposed deportations: Stop getting in the way of the law. Now the feds have come for him.
The conservative Christian blogger and podcaster was arrested by immigration authorities at an Ohio airport on October 21, according to The Dispatch. The Department of Homeland Security says Sey, a Ghanaian-born immigrant who grew up in Canada, entered the United States legally in 2022 but overstayed his authorized admission. The agency says he will remain in custody until it removes him from the country.
His supporters, however, say a paperwork issue may be to blame. And this is where things get interesting.
Sey wasn’t exactly keeping his immigration opinions to himself. In a February 2025 essay, he argued that deporting undocumented immigrants was entirely compatible with Christianity. In fact, he wrote that Christian ethics demanded deportation as a matter of justice. Earlier this year, he also declared on social media, “If you love America, you should support ICE.”
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In a Jan. 18 post, Sey also declared that “anti-ICE protestors are influenced by Satan.”
Now, ICE has officially entered the chat. And the same conservative Christian circles that have defended the administration’s deportation agenda are scrambling to help one of their own.
Several conservative commentators, including Joel Berry, have publicly expressed support for Sey. Berry organized a fundraiser for Sey’s family, describing the situation as a “clerical error.”
“Sey entered the United States legally and has been working ever since in good faith with a lawyer to obtain permanent legal status,” Sey’s wife wrote on the GiveSendGo fundraiser. “Our family is trying to understand what went wrong in the process. In the spirit of Romans 13, our family fully supports and respects American law and are prayerfully working to get him home through the legal process.”
The Trump administration has stressed that immigration enforcement is about applying the law, and Sey’s family is learning that consistency matters.
“Sey has no pending applications and [has] accepted voluntary departure. He will remain in ICE custody until removed from the United States,” a spokesperson for DHS told The Dispatch. “We do not pick and choose which laws to enforce or where to enforce them.”
Sey once argued that deportation might be inconvenient, but not unjust. Now, he’s being held at Butler County Jail until his departure is arranged.
