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DC’s faith communities rally to protect bused-in immigrants
By Emily Neil — November 22, 2022
(RNS) — Organizing efforts in Washington have become a blueprint for other cities.
Priest supports whistleblower allegations at ICE facility as Christian leaders weigh in
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 23, 2020
(RNS) — Sister Simone Campbell and the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are among those calling for Homeland Security to investigate allegations of neglect and a high rate of hysterectomies at an immigrant detention center.
ICE apprehension on church grounds violated federal policy, say faith leaders
By Jack Jenkins — September 21, 2020
BALTIMORE (RNS) — The incident is the latest example of escalating tensions between faith-based sanctuary movement activists and the Trump administration.
Activists to hold protest rally after reports of ICE officials forcing Muslim detainees to eat pork
By Alejandra Molina — September 17, 2020
(RNS) — Immigrant rights activists and religious groups will head to a Miami detention center Saturday to demand immigration officials respond to reports of Muslim detainees being forced to choose between eating pork or rotten halal meat.
Muslim ICE detainees in Miami forced to choose between pork or rotten halal food, lawyers say
By Aysha Khan — August 19, 2020
(RNS) — The ICE chaplain reportedly dismissed Muslim detainees' repeated complaints by saying, ‘It is what it is,’ the legal advocates allege.
Immigrants in detention don’t deserve a death sentence
By Alexia Salvatierra and Carlos L. Malave — April 4, 2020
(RNS) — At a time when jails and prisons are releasing inmates, it makes sense to extend the same precautions to detained immigrants.
Minnesota clergy, ICE critics want bishop name off building
By Steve Karnowski — October 30, 2019
(AP) — The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, which houses the Minneapolis-area offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, was named for an Episcopal leader who defended Native Americans.
ICE drops $300,000 fine for an immigrant in church sanctuary
By Yonat Shimron — October 25, 2019
(RNS) — ICE spokesman Richard A. Rocha confirmed that his office has dropped the fines for eight undocumented immigrants.
We are too old not to get arrested for children at the border
By Phyllis Berman and Arthur Waskow — September 9, 2019
(RNS) — As parents and grandparents, as teachers and rabbis and as Jews, we understand that these children and their families will be traumatized for generations to come.
Truck drives into line of Jewish demonstrators protesting ICE in Rhode Island
By Jack Jenkins — August 15, 2019
(RNS) — Organizers say roughly 400 people gathered for the protest and at least 30 participants formed a human barricade blocking the entrance to the Wyatt Detention Facility.
Chaldean Christian deported by Trump administration dies in Iraq
By Jack Jenkins — August 8, 2019
(RNS) — A Chaldean Christian man from Michigan who was deported to Iraq has reportedly died because he was unable to obtain insulin to treat his diabetes.
Send back the Statue of Liberty
By Thomas Reese — July 23, 2019
(RNS) — She entered our country in 1886 without a visa, has never applied for citizenship and does not speak one word of English. Worst of all, she advocates for open borders. It's time to send her back.
Across US, clergy mobilize to support vulnerable migrants
By Hannah Grabenstein — July 19, 2019
(AP) — The prospect of a nationwide sweep for undocumented immigrants has prompted legions of pastors, rabbis and their congregations to stand ready to help vulnerable immigrants with offers of sanctuary and other services.
Pastor surveilled after ministering to migrants sues US government
By Aysha Khan — July 9, 2019
(RNS) — A New York pastor, the Rev. Kaji Douša, has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that U.S officials violated her religious freedom when she was put on a watchlist over her ministry to migrants at the border.
Sanctuary churches say fines against immigrants meant to sow fear
By Yonat Shimron — July 3, 2019
(RNS) — Some indigent immigrants would owe as much as $500,000 for overstaying their deportation orders.
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