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Church officials face a five-year prison sentence and a $2,000 fine if they are arrested for "aiding, harboring or transporting" Salvadoran or Guatemalan refugees...
...Cambridge Baptist Church, located at 1151 Massachusetts Ave. will join a nationwide sanctuary movement of 170 churches that grant refuge to Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees who would otherwise be deported back to their countries by the federal government...
...immigration laws the church officials face a possible five-year prison sentence and a $2,000 fine if they are convicted of harboring Central American refugees, said a spokesman for the Chicago Religion Task Force on Central America, the organization coordinating the transportation and placement of El Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees into U.S. churches...
...accept [the refugees] as political refugees would mean the United States is admitting that the Salvadoran and Guatemalan governments are oppressing their people," Cox said...
...least 10,000 Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees have been deported by the U.S. government according to the Chicago Task Force's figures...