Pondering What Progress Has Been Made: The Week In Review From WFAE wfae.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wfae.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Deportation Order Rescinded for First Immigrant to Seek Sanctuary in N C indyweek.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indyweek.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Juana Tobar Ortega, who has been living at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro since May 2017 to avoid being deported, has returned to her home in Asheboro, Siembra NC,
/ Juana Tobar Ortega (center) pictured with her husband, four children, and one of her two grandchildren at an event announcing her sanctuary at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro in May 2017.
After spending
four years in sanctuary at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro, Juana Tobar Ortega, an immigrant mother from Guatemala, will not be deported by the Department of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security granted Ortega a
stay of removal Tuesday. The decision stops department agents from following through with a deportation order unless it is revoked because of an arrest or conviction.
Ortega first sought sanctuary at St. Barnabas in May 2017. DHS reissued her deportation order following a
She spent 4 years in a Greensboro church, seeking sanctuary Now this Asheboro mother is home hickoryrecord.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hickoryrecord.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.