Word: salvadorans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge church will open its doors today to a Salvadoran refugee, whom church officials say is feeling death squads in her country...
...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...
...Salvadoran government has arrested and tortured Estela three times because of her union organizing activities according to a press release issued yesterday by the Cambridge Church. She has three children, and right-wing death squads allegedly killed her husband...
Although the publicity surrounding the church's decision to accept Salvadoran refugees would make it easy for authorities to arrest either Estela or church officials, Peggy Smith, one of the eight members on the church's sanctuary task force, said the sanctuary movement is effective because of its public protest...
Under U.S. 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...