Daniel Whyte III, President of Gospel Light Society International, says he has never been a follower or reader of Samuel Sey and has always thought Sey pandered to the politically-based conservative evangelicals for favor and/or money. Whyte publicly warned Voddie Baucham of seemingly doing the same before he died.

Now, tragically, Sey is in a Catch-22 situation, being caught up in an ICE-related situation, while the one conservative Christian group he rebuked — the white Christian nationalists — are enthusiastically cheering his arrest.

Daniel Whyte III says, a word to the wise, black and white Christians: stop getting involved in politics; stop trying to make money off of politics, be it from the Republican or the Democratic Party. Preach and write only for God and Jesus Christ, and let the chips fall where they may. And, yes, die poor for Jesus, if you have to.

Samuel Sey, the 39-year-old conservative Christian commentator who has written for the Christian Post and who adamantly defended President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, is being held in an Ohio jail for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to The Roys Report.

Sey was booked into the Butler County Jail, north of Cincinnati, a little after 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, according to jail records. His booking status is listed as “Hold for ICE.” He has not been charged with a crime, and the reason for his detention is not yet clear. A spokesperson for the Butler County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment, and ICE has not publicly commented on the case.

Sey was born in Ghana and emigrated to Canada in the 1990s. He moved to the United States in 2022 to marry a woman in Ohio. At the time of his move, Sey noted that he did not have permanent residency status and was not allowed to work in the U.S., and he asked supporters for financial help while he continued to write and provide commentary. He formerly served as a community liaison with the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.

Writing as @SlowToWrite, Sey built a large following with bold commentary on faith, race, and moral issues. His work has been featured by the Christian Post, The Daily Wire, The Blaze, World, Turning Point USA, Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, and Founders Ministries. He closely identified with the late ministers Voddie Baucham and John MacArthur, and he argued that leftist ideas about systemic racism, white privilege, and critical race theory were incompatible with the Gospel.

On immigration, Sey was one of mass deportation’s most forceful Christian defenders. “Christian ethics do not denounce deportations. They demand it,” he wrote last year, arguing that because illegal immigration is a crime, Christian ethics demand justice, and that justice includes deportation. He said he hated illegal immigration because of watching his mother work hard to go through the proper procedure in Canada, and he said people protesting ICE were “influenced by Satan.”

Sey also regularly opposed Christian nationalists who, according to The Roys Report, advocate for a return to racial segregation in America. Now, some of those same Christian nationalists are celebrating his arrest. Texas pastor Joel Webbon cheered on X at the thought that Sey might be sent back to “the right country,” and another person wrote, “This is what I voted for.”

Sey’s friends and supporters insist he is not in the United States illegally and say the arrest is a misunderstanding. “Toxic Empathy” author Allie Beth Stuckey said on X that she was not at liberty to share all the details, but that ICE did not come to Sey’s home and the matter is a paperwork issue being worked on to resolve. Protestia publisher David Morrill likewise speculated that the situation may be a misunderstanding, noting that Sey “has written extensively about the righteousness of borders and immigration enforcement,” and adding: “It’s highly unlikely that Samuel Sey … has been knowingly violating immigration laws. My money’s on this being a misunderstanding.”

The case comes as the Trump administration carries out the largest deportation effort in modern history. The administration deported about 660,000 people last year, according to data released Thursday by the Migration Policy Institute.

GLM Omnimedia News will update this story as more details become available. In the meantime, pray for Samuel Sey and his family.

Source: The Roys Report, with additional reporting from Protestia. Booking photo courtesy of the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.