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More Central American migrants take shelter in churches, recalling 1980s sanctuary movement

  • Written by Mario Garcia, Professor, Department of Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
More Central American migrants take shelter in churches, recalling 1980s sanctuary movementHonduran migrant Vicky Chavez with her daughter Issabella on May 31, 2018 in the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City, where she sought protection from deportation in late 2017. AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

The ongoing threat of mass immigration raids is terrifying immigrant communities across the United States.

Many of those targeted in these raids are...

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