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Currently Reading I don t want to be without her - Texas activists seek legal status for migrants who have sheltered in churches to escape ICE s reach
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Refugee Ivan Ramirez (center) is supported by activists Pastor Jim Rigby of Austin’s St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and Carmen Zuvieta (second from right) as they approach Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices.Photos by Kin Man Hui /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Activists Rigby, from left, Zuvieta, the Rev. Mark Skrabacz and the Rev. Erin Walter attempt to submit a document of signatures at ICE’s San Antonio field office.Kin Man Hui / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
Noncitizens living in churches ask to be included in immigration plan
Noncitizens living in churches ask to be included in immigration plan
Officials from the National Sanctuary Collective say, currently in the United States, there are about 50 individuals and families living in sanctuary churches.
AUSTIN, Texas - St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in North Austin for the past several years has been more than a place of worship, it’s been a sanctuary for a mother and her son.
Hilda Ramirez and her son are being protected by the church from being deported. y ha sido dificil para mi vivir todo estos anos. (And it’s been hard for me to live all these years. ), said Ramirez.
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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.