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...troops from the front lines of the war. In some cases, the Iraqi security forces being trained and equipped by the U.S. retain ties to anti-American militia who could turn on U.S. troops as they depart. (On July 13, U.S. troops killed six Iraqi police in a raid targeting a rogue police commander...
...awfully drastic step, to say that we are going to disobey the law," he says. [Actually, Movement lawyers claim it is technically legal, although others disagree. But part of Sanctuary's magnetism is unquestionably that by boarding illegals in a church, which the INS is unlikely to raid, it provides them de facto protection from the law.] Says Land, "I would never turn someone away. If they showed up, you should help them. But that's different from me saying, 'If you're illegal, then we will protect you from the government.' I don't think the Bible requires that...
...affected by my deportation." But then she recalls the sudden sense of being hunted that put her on her current path. "After I got my final deportation notice," she says, "a friend called and told me there were unmarked police cars in front of my building." There was no raid, but that night there was a video of one on TV. She holds her hands together as if cuffed. "I saw how people were being tied like animals," she says, "and I thought, When it happens to me, my daughter will watch as the agents carry me off like...
...Sanctuary Movement (NSM), founded in May, has coordinated what it calls prophetic hospitality (there is no legal right to asylum in churches, but immigration authorities tend not to raid them) for eight undocumented immigrants in five cities. Each, like Yolanda, has a story of personal integrity and family unity under attack by immigration enforcement. They have drawn considerable press, but they also seem a bit packaged: focusing on eight undocumented immigrants out of 12 million allows for intense cherry-picking and hardly suggests a mass movement. An anti-immigration blogger derided NSM as a "bed-and-breakfast dog-and-pony...
...congregations may provide hospitality, legal or material help, or advocacy. Thus in San Francisco recently a nun and five ministers accompanied the parents of a desperately ill infant to request a humanitarian stay of deportation (they received it), and a Seattle group sent out an alarm about a coming raid to fellow believers in Portland, Ore., who then videotaped it for possible human-rights violations...