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| Philadelphians train to disrupt ICE raids. Photo: Laura Benshoff/WHYY |
The deportation raids earlier this month seem to have
galvanized the New Sanctuary Movement. In what many consider a reprise of the
19th century’s Underground Railroad, religious institutions around
the country are preparing to combat future raids by sheltering immigrants and
disrupting ICE operations.--TPOI editor
Plan to Disrupt Immigration Raids Will Enlist Songs and
Prayers
By Laura Benshoff, NPR Morning Edition
February 24, 2017
As one woman yells “Help! Help!” — pretending to be taken by
federal immigration officers — volunteers being trained to disrupt a raid begin
singing and sit down as one, blocking the officers' path.
This scene is part of a training by a nonprofit advocacy
group called New Sanctuary Movement. The group hopes to leverage a
long-standing policy that federal agents won't make arrests in houses of
worship — to create a kind of mobile sanctuary wherever a raid is happening,
through prayers and hymns.
President Trump's immigration enforcement plans are still
evolving, but the ominous feeling that they've created in communities of
unauthorized immigrants has spurred trainings such as this one across the
country.[…]
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These religious leaders are creating a new underground
system to shelter undocumented immigrants
By Rafi Schwartz, Fusion
February 24, 2017
Across southern California, religious leaders are hard at
work creating the infrastructure for what could become a major form of
resistance in the Trump-era: sheltering immigrants.
Calling themselves the “Rapid Response Team,” a grassroots
network of pastors, ministers, and laypeople have begun preparing private
residences to house—and if need be, protect—undocumented immigrants at risk for
deportation under President Trump’s ongoing crackdown on the undocumented
community.
“That’s what we need to do as a community to keep families
together,” Paster Ada Valiente explained to CNN, which profiled this growing
movement on Thursday.[…]
Read the full article:
http://fusion.net/story/388707/southern-california-rapid-response-team-undocumented-immigrants/
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