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Immigrant Leaves Sanctuary Church After ICE Pledges Not To Immediately Deport Him Alex Garcia, a Honduran immigrant, has been living inside a Missouri church since 2017 to avoid deportation. Jim Salter MAPLEWOOD, Mo. (AP) After 3 1/2 years living inside a Missouri church to avoid deportation, Honduran immigrant Alex Garcia finally stepped outside Wednesday, following a promise from President Joe Biden’s administration to let him be. Garcia, a married father of five, was slated for removal from the U.S. in 2017, the first year of President Donald Trump’s administration. Days before he would have been deported, Christ Church United Church of Christ in the St. Louis suburb of Maplewood offered sanctuary.

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