Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and his campaign promise to deport as many undocumented immigrants as he can has helped give the nation’s church-led sanctuary movement a rebirth. And it’s fitting that Tucson, the birthplace of the modern sanctuary movement, should be involved.
Reporter Paul Ingram has an excellent article on the history of the modern sanctuary movement and its current activity in the Tucson Sentinel. That’s where you should go for more details. Here are the first few paragraphs of his article.
With the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump just days away, religious leaders from 19 congregations in Tucson announced Wednesday that they were committed to “radical welcome,” as part of a reborn Sanctuary movement determined to shelter refugees and unauthorized immigrants from deportation.
Nearly 100 people filled benches in the kiva-style sanctuary at Southside Presbyterian Church and listened as church pastor Rev. Allison Harrington announced that the church would join “Sanctuary Rising,” a movement involving 700 religious congregations nationwide whose members agreed to buck several of Trump’s proposed policies, including the immediate deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.
Church members agreed to work against the incoming Trump administration’s plan to create a “special deportation force” and quickly deport 2-3 million illegal aliens.
“As people of faith and people of conscience, we pledge to resist the newly elected administration’s policy proposals to target and deport millions of undocumented immigrants and discriminate against marginalized communities,” Harrington said, reading the pledge. “Tonight we come together in this new historical moment,” she said. “And we commit ourselves to love and justice, and radical welcome.”
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2017.
He never said he would deport “as many as he can.”
Fake news.
Don’t expect David Safier to get the details right when he’s reporting about his political adversaries. His technique is more scattershot: blast them with whatever you’ve got, real, distorted, and / or invented. Cf. his attacks on the IEC TKF before the TUSD Board election.
Does he care who and what gets hurt in the process? The truth, people with whom he disagrees politically, or local parents donating and volunteering generously to try to improve our schools?
Not a bit.
The most laughable portions of his blog are those where he tries to work up righteous indignation about “fake news” and distortions of THE TRUTH by his political adversaries. As if he’s not guilty of same, and regularly.
Special deportation force. Where does he get these things? Oh by the way. As of today it’s President Trump !!
Wed. Aug 31st in a campaign speech in Phoenix.
We are going to triple the number of ICE deportation officers, Trump said. Within ICE, I am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal immigrants in America who have evaded justice.
“He is going to deport the most dangerous criminal illegal immigrants.” Oh, horrors, we can’t have that. It can’t be true anyway because everyone knows they are all good people who just want to help their families. They wouldn’t do anything bad, would they. Not really.
Perhaps we wouldn’t be having this conversation if millions of Mexicans hadn’t swarmed our borders. Did the open border advocates really believe Americans would accept an invasion without pushing back.
Would Tucson’s religious left give “sanctuary” to a white person wanted for federal income evasion, or is it only for brown people?
There is no federal law that says these havens for criminals cannot be raided and shut down. So this to holie to be arrested is simply a delusion.
I hope that the IRS under President Trump looks into whether religious organizations that aid and abet criminal fugitives are entitled to keep their tax exempt status. The taxpayers certainly should not be expected to subsidize this.
It’s important to realize that we are not, generally speaking, talking about people who are at risk of being sent back to face authoritarian death squads for being political dissidents. It isn’t 1986 any more. We are, generally speaking, talking about economic migrants who snuck into our country, in violation of our laws, because they wanted to improve their lifestyles. Fair enough. Everyone would like to have more money, better housing, better schools for their kids, etc. But that doesn’t entitle anyone to violate the law, and it doesn’t make them heroes when they do.
Additionally, SSPC is talking about shielding people who are already subject to deportation orders. These are people who have had their due process. They have had notice and a hearing before a federal immigration judge. They just don’t want to comply with the judge’s order. Ask yourself whether anyone would come to your defense if you just decided, arbitrarily, that a judge’s orders just shouldn’t apply to you.
As yesterday’s riots in DC demonstrated, the left seems to believe that is morally entitled to ignore the law. They aren’t. No more anarchy. Enough is enough.
Trump wants to identify and deport the most dangerous criminal ILLEGAL immigrants in America and 3 morons hit dislike. Some very scary people read the Weekly.
What he said is not really important, since it changes from tweet to tweet. Conway says we have to look into his heart. And, if we do, we “know” what he intends to do. One look at the racists he surrounds himself with and we “know” what he says is bullshit for media consumption. What he intends to do is make white folks feel safe again.
Too much CNN is not good for you. Drop the talking points and think for yourself.