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The National Immigrant Justice Center, We Are Home campaign, and the 85 undersigned organizations urge you to establish a meaningful opportunity to return home for those unjustly deported. Across the nation and world, deported families and advocates echo this call through individual campaigns and hard-fought battles to return the unjustly deported to their families and communities. ....
Alex Garcia, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras who has been living in a Maplewood church for more than three-and-a-half years to avoid deportation, left the church at 3 p.m. Wednesday after federal authorities committed to not enforcing his deportation. Garcia is no longer a priority for deportation for Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, the St. Louis Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America announced Wednesday. The agency has “unequivocally stated that it will not be pursuing Alex’s detention or removal,” the IFCLA said. Garcia, from Poplar Bluff, has been living at Christ Church United Church of Christ, 2200 Bellevue Ave., Maplewood. Supporters were planning to gather with masks and social distancing at 3 p.m. as the Garcia family leaves the church. ....
St. Louis Public Radio Alex and Carly Garcia listen to a sermon during an event in 2018 to help support their family. Alex has been living in a Maplewood church for over three years. He wants the federal government to grant unauthorized immigrants like himself who face deportation permanent protection under the law. Alex Garcia has been living inside Christ Church, United Church of Christ, in Maplewood for nearly 3½ years. He sought sanctuary there after immigration officials ordered him to be sent back to Honduras. To help unauthorized immigrants like Garcia, the Biden administration issued a 100-day moratorium on deportations to allow them to stay with their families in the U.S. But on Tuesday, a federal judge in Texas placed a temporary block on the executive order for 14 days. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that the moratorium violates the U.S. Constitution and federal immigration and administrative law. ....
Originally published on December 17, 2020 8:07 pm DACA recipients across the St. Louis region are relieved that a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that allows young immigrants to stay in the country. President Barack Obama started the program in 2012 to allow people who entered the U.S. without authorization as children to remain. But the Trump administration stopped taking new applications in 2017. The judge’s decision last week extends the one-year work permits recipients receive under the Trump rules to two years, as originally implemented. It also allows DACA recipients to apply to travel abroad and opens the application process to hundreds of thousands of now-eligible young immigrants. ....
/ A ruling from a federal judge last week orders the Trump administration to fully reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that allows immigrants who arrived in the U.S. without authorization to stay in the country. DACA recipients across the St. Louis region are relieved that a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that allows young immigrants to stay in the country. President Barack Obama started the program in 2012 to allow people who entered the U.S. without authorization as children to remain. But the Trump administration stopped taking new applications in 2017. ....