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CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – ICE has issued a Stay of Removal for a woman who has been in sanctuary at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church since October 2018.
Maria Chavalan Sut came to the church after she received a deportation notice claiming she did not attend a July 2017 Immigration Court hearing she says of which she never received notice was happening. She says she fled her Guatamalan home to the United States after some men came to her house one early morning in late 2016, burned her house with she and her children inside, and demanded she relinquish her land.
She’s seeking asylum here claiming her’s and her family’s lives are in danger if they return there. Her lawyer says this one-year stay is not the end of the ordeal, but an important step in she can stay safely here while her asylum is considered.
Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis, KKK and members of the alt-right hurl water bottles back and forth against counter demonstrators on the outskirts of Emancipation Park during the Unite the Right rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
In 2017, former President Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” when a group of protesters including white nationalists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and clashed with counter-protesters.
The event was a brazen display of racism and anti-Semitism, and it claimed the life of a young woman named Heather Heyer. When President Biden launched his campaign a year and a half later, the first two words of his announcement were Charlottesville, Virginia.
Charlottesville Inspired Biden to Run. Now It Has a Message for Him.
The white supremacist rally in 2017 prefigured the rise of right-wing violence in President Trump’s name. Now, as President Biden calls for national unity, residents say it requires accountability first.
Ibby Han said it was “jarring” to see footage of President Biden’s campaign announcement in 2019 include her and other counterprotesters in Charlottesville.Credit.Matt Eich for The New York Times
Jan. 21, 2021
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Susan Bro recognized the palpable anger and open bigotry on display in the mob that attacked the United States Capitol this month. It reminded her of the outpouring of hate that killed her daughter, Heather Heyer.
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