After recent ICE raids, sanctuary movement grows for immigrants here illegally

Los Angeles Times ^ | February 8, 2016 | By Cindy Carcamo

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Rev. Fred Morris is familiar with violence in Latin America.

Morris, currently leading North Hills United Methodist Church, survived detention and torture at the hands of Brazil's military dictatorship in 1974.

That's one reason Morris said he's ready to defy Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and offer his place of worship as a refuge for Central Americans facing imminent deportation to a region with escalating violence.

"We are willing to fight this tooth and nail," said Morris, 82. "If ICE wants to come get them, they're going to have to break down the church door."

Morris' congregation is one of at least three in the Los Angeles area vowing in recent weeks to offer refuge to Central Americans with deportation orders - joining what advocates say is a growing number of pastors, preachers and nuns across the country in reviving the sanctuary movement.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[RummyChick]

Go right ahead...because it will work out so well.

That mother who told her 10 year old boy to be welcoming to migrants is changing her tune after he was raped because the nut job was suffering a sexual emergency.

[PATRIOT1876]

Morris needs to be tried for treason for aiding and abetting foreign invaders

[BenLurkin]

Morris is familiar with violence in Latin America...and wants to bring it here.

[stocksthatgoup]

Cut off ajj Federal aid to these cities

[Rurudyne]

Central Americans aren’t often Muslim.

That said, the “sanctuary” movement is pretty much s dumb as dumb can get. We should not be coddling these illegal aliens. It isn’t about race: it’s about our right as a nation to have our own laws that people from elsewhere respect ... or else.

[usurper]

Morris, 82. "If ICE wants to come get them, they're going to have to break down the church door."

Harboring illegal aliens is a felony and there is no exception for clergy.

[Monorprise]

Its hard to respect someone who invades anther country after allowing criminals to take over their own. Crime in South and central America is hardly unusual or justification to invade someone else’s country.

You run from a criminal and you will never stop ruining, they will just follow you like liberals because you are their source of everything they refuse to earn for themselfs.