Here’s my point: wherever we encounter a those people attitude in America’s current immigration debate, we witness a heart that is closer to Pharaoh than it is to Jesus Christ. Pharaoh’s words in Exodus 1:9-10 ought to remind us that the imago Dei imprinted on every soul has implications for how we think about and treat all people. In Egypt, Pharaoh was considered the only image of God. So if you weren’t “his people” you could be dismissed as unworthy of dignity. We have a natural tendency to categorize people into groups of “others.” Doing so makes it easy to dehumanize people and think of
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