Sanctuary group calls on Biden to free immigrants
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Mexican national has been living at Mancos church since June 2017
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 6:20 PM Updated: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 10:33 PM Rosa Sabido, photographed at Mancos United Methodist Church on June 26, 2017, on Tuesday called for the Biden administration to liberate immigrants from sanctuary. Sabido has lived in sanctuary at the church for more than three years. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file
Sanctuary group calls on Biden to free immigrants Rosa Sabido, photographed at Mancos United Methodist Church on June 26, 2017, on Tuesday called for the Biden administration to liberate immigrants from sanctuary. Sabido has lived in sanctuary at the church for more than three years.
Advocates for four outspoken undocumented immigrants are suing the federal government over a policy under former President Donald Trump that fined certain
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Hilda Ramirez escaped the violence of her native Guatemala in order to save her son s life amid recruitment efforts by violent gangs. (Austin Sanctuary Network)
AUSTIN, TX Four women living in sanctuary including one living in an Austin church to avoid being deported filed a lawsuit Tuesday against U.S. immigration officials for targeting them with retaliatory and excessive civil fines.
The women were joined in the lawsuit by Austin Sanctuary Network and Free Migration Project. Each plaintiff is a leader in the modern sanctuary movement begun in the 1980s as a resistance to government oppression, officials noted in an advisory. Houses of worship across the country .including St. Andrew s Presbyterian Church in Austin, 14311 Wells Port Dr., where Guatemalan refugee Hilda Ramirez has taken shelter have offered sanctuary in solidarity with migrants who otherwise would be deported.
ICE Is Targeting Women in Sanctuary With Obscure Laws and Retaliatory Fines
Paper dolls are held by demonstrators protesting outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters to demand the release of immigrants families in detention centers at risk during the coronavirus pandemic, in Washington, D.C., on July 17, 2020.
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Around Thanksgiving, another letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrived for Hilda Ramirez at Austin, Texasâ, St. Andrewâs Presbyterian Church. The federal immigration agencyâs latest correspondence informed Ramirez that she was being fined $59,126 as a âcivil penalty pursuant to section 274D of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).â Essentially, the federal immigration agency was once again warning the Indigenous Guatemalan asylum-seeker of a gigantic fine for not complying with their order that she leave the United States.