From North Carolina-Juana Tobar Ortega at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, on June 1. Betsy Blake / American Friends Service Committee
Keeney said that the issue went beyond simple legality and that current deportations policies were “extremely harmful not only to the undocumented population but to society as a whole.”
“Undocumented people are afraid now to even call the police if a crime was committed … or to go to the hospital,” he added.
While Ortega and immigration activists hope ICE will re-evaluate her case, Keeney said the church would continue to protect her “as long as it takes.”
“She’s part of our family now, and we’re going to take care of her and protect her as best as we can, and if ICE comes, we will do the best we can nonviolently to resist that,” he said.
More here-
http://www.41nbc.com/2017/06/05/imagine-leaving-behind-your-entire-family-undocumented-grandmother-flees-to-church/
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