undocumented immigrants originally from central america and dropped them off at a greyhound bus station in tucson and phoenix last weekend. why? in south texas they do not have the manpower to hand it will surge of undocumented immigrants. both sides of the immigration debate are upset over dropoffs. border enforcement groups fear it could spur more illegal entry into the u.s. humanitarians worry about the immigrants and children being dropped off without basic necessities. this feels like the opposite of due process. i had a whole host of feelings about this. i talked to a colleague down in texas. what she said is many of these people, they re children in families, like u you said, who have gone through a terrible crossing. going up north to escape violence and persecution. when they arrive on our doorstep, we should treat them humanely, that they re screened
tucson. nice to have you this morning. thank you. good to be here. reverend, what led you to make this decision to offer sanctuary? every day in tucson we re seeing individuals like daniel being torn apart from their families. so we were honored that he came and asked us and that we were able to offer him sanctuary, thereby keeping his family together. and we re joining our voices to ask his deportation case be closed, that he can stay with his wife carla and his 13-year-old son carlos. when i read the story i turned to my producer and said, wait an minute, you can do this? i did not know american churches could operate in sanctuaries against deportation rules. yeah, it s a long tradition actually. the sanctuary movement of the 1980s is part of the legacy at my church. we were a founding church in the
the orphan, and we re saying we need to act sooner and prevent our broken immigration system from creating widows and orphans throughout the communities. we are hoping other churches would step up. other communities of faith to say this is enough. we don t want people disappearing from the neighborhoods anymore. we want the families to remain together. we hope that moral voice thinging about the importance of family community would indeed help. m. thank you for joining us early in tucson, arizona. we really appreciated your story and we re happy to have you share it. and as we go out, i want to take a listen. as we come back, we ll talk about the fact that there is organized efforts against the problems. i want to listen to a little bit of tape. this is tape from the detention center. f and just that sense of a lack of hope. we ll talk more about hope when