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The faith-based Sanctuary group said it was offering its houses of worship to any migrant seeking safe haven from the crackdown. Meanwhile, the number of Central American families and children caught along the U.S.-Mexico border has surged in recent months, hinting that the underlying problems driving people out of their homes remain unresolved.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportation hundreds of undocumented Central American immigrant families, says The Washington Post.
ABC’s Stephanie Ramos joined us from Washington D.C. According to KRGV 5, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will focus on adults and children who were ordered to be removed from the country by an immigration judge.
The operation would send thousands of terrified Central American families back into the black holes of poverty and violence they barely escaped.
Fox News Latino us-plans-raids-to-deport-families-who-surged-across-border/2015/12/23/034fc954-a9bd-11e5-8058-480b572b4aae_story.html”>reported that the Obama administration reported earlier this week that in 2015, the us deported the fewest immigrants since 2006.
The current dynamic is borne out of the massive humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2014, when a flood of unaccompanied minor children and families from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador maxed-out federal resources.
The Movement, which has about 50 congregations in U.S. cities, was in the spotlight last January when it provided refuge in Philadelphia to Honduran women whose two children were born in the U.S. She eventually earned a two-year reprieve from deportation.
Immigrant children in Nogales, Ariz. shelter use the phone. Further compounding the issue, the administration has been blocked by federal courts from expanding its family detention practices and has been left with limited tools to deter more families from making the risky journey north.
Republican U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson said the move would help “eliminate the incentive that results from allowing 95.6 percent of these illegal immigrants to stay”. They deserve all the rights and protections afforded to refugees and asylum seekers.
“As pastors we know that each and every family is a holy family”, said the Rev. Alison Harrington, pastor of Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona. Harrington continued to say that, doors of the Sanctuary Movement are “open to present day Josephs and Marys”. “Well, the time is now”.
