Steve Deace reacts to a viral TikTok where a Somali-American creator taunts white Americans about welfare and rule of law, and Deace uses the moment to argue that Scripture and clear borders matter more than sentimental assumptions about immigration.
A short clip has ignited online debate after a Somali-American TikTok creator delivered a blistering, mocking monologue about work, welfare, and power.
In the video the creator says: “Thank you for working so hard so I can be home all day — free. I can use my EBT. Go to work for me, white boy, white girl! Yeah! Go to work for me, you f**king white animals! F**king work for me. Yeah, you f**king work for me. And the U.S. government — they work for me. All of you work for me. Now go to work.” That raw tone is what pushed the clip into viral territory.
Conservative commentator Steve Deace saw this as a cultural and moral moment, not just an online outrage cycle. “This is what we get when Christians assume they intuitively know the character of God instead of actually reading Scripture,” he says, and he points to what he believes are real-world consequences of ignoring biblical teaching on boundaries.
Deace admits he once struggled with a certain compassion-instinct, quoting “being kind to the alien and sojourner.” He recalls, “I could see myself falling into this to the point that one day, I let them put one of their illegal aliens on my show,” he says, and that interview snapped something into focus for him.
The guest in question was a student at the University of Iowa, and the conversation turned tense when Deace asked about fairness to American applicants. The student’s reply, Deace reports, “was a lot like that Somali video.” The guest told him bluntly: “Well, you guys stole this land from the Injuns. It’s an illegitimate country. I don’t feel any guilt and remorse whatsoever. And you’ve been raping the Latin world and third world ever since. So, you owe me.”
That exchange shifted Deace’s view away from naïve charity toward a scriptural framework for national policy. “Let’s open up the word of God and see what it actually says. And I’m reading Nehemiah. There’s mass deportations. They’re building walls. God is punishing his people for not keeping boundary stones. I think the first judgment after Noah’s flood is the Tower of Babel. And God’s like, ‘Nope, you guys do not get to come together as one nebulous, globalist glob. We’re not doing that here,”’ Deace says, and he uses that reading to justify firm borders.
From Deace’s perspective, years of Christians assuming an open-door theology without studying Scripture has led to a political mess. He frames the viral TikTok as evidence that some migrants feel empowered to taunt and exploit our systems, and he sees that as a failure of leadership and cultural discernment.
He doesn’t sugarcoat how he reads the attitude of some illegal immigrants today. “Now it’s just in your face,” Deace says, and he adds the vivid line: “We will pee on you and tell you it’s raining. In fact, while we’re peeing on you and you know we’re peeing on you and you can smell the urine in the air, we’re going to keep just telling you it’s raining. We’re going to laugh at you because we have no fear of you whatsoever. None. We have no fear of your politicians.”
That blunt assessment is designed to provoke a political response: stop treating immigration as merely a moral sentiment and start treating it as a matter of law, order, and the civic stability Scripture and tradition have long defended. To hear more of Deace’s response, watch the video above.
