This story gives many examples of people living in churches around the country, avoiding deportation. All have young American born children, their families would be split up. DP
By Emily Bazar, USA TODAY
USAToday.com: Five immigration agents rapped on Liliana's front door one morning in May. "We've come for you," she recalls them saying.
Liliana, a 29-year-old factory worker from Mexico who crossed the border illegally in 1998, begged and pleaded. "What about my children?" she asked. "I have a baby. I'm nursing."
The agents softened when they heard Pablito crying, she says, and gave her a reprieve. They ordered her to report to a detention center five days later to be sent back to Mexico.
Instead, Liliana hid at the home of a Catholic deacon and his wife. Last month she emerged from hiding and took up residence at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, which has pledged to protect her from deportation.
St. Luke's and Liliana are central characters in the New Sanctuary Movement, a small but growing coalition of churches, synagogues and other houses of worship that is challenging the immigration system, despite legal risk, as the nation debates how to deal with the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the USA.
The congregations say the immigration system mistreats immigrants and breaks families apart. They want to end raids of job sites that have led to the arrest of thousands of undocumented workers, and they're lobbying for policies that would help keep the families of illegal immigrants together and in the USA.
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1 comment:
I am sorry to read this story but "SHE BROKE THE LAW". Myself knowing that not to many years ago there were six million illegals in the United State that were given citizenship, because of this there are now 20 million. To cure this influx of automatic rights of the constitution, I believe that the wall, fence or whatever should be built and during construction to of the wall or fence no effort should be make to deport the illegals.
That is correct no effort should be make to deport anyone. However, it should be noted that under the laws of the United States they have broken the law and unless they leave the country before the completion of the wall or fence they will when found be made to suffer the loss of all property and fredom.
In other terms, if you are in the United States at the completion of the wall or fence and are illeally in this country you shall be 0ne: incarcerated for a period of five years and Two: all properties owned shall become the property of the county in which they were arrested Three: no child born in the United States to illegals shall be allowed to own properties until their twenty first birthdate, unless they have be approved by the department of immagration that their parents were illgal, and have register as such.
There must be a system that takes the profit out of entering this country illegally and that has already been done by the United States Supreme Court when dealing with the Cuban boat people when in their opinion they wrote "NO CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES SHALL BE MADE TO SUFFER THE LOSS OF LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY WITHOUT THE DUE PROCESS OF LAW". Since the Cubans were not citizens they had no rights under the Constitution of the United States.
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