In south Minneapolis, a special education student logged on for their online class from the basement. They were hiding because immigration agents were banging at the door.
A second grader started having a panic attack in the middle of art class because agents had arrested his dad. His teacher had to ask a colleague to watch the other students, bring him outside, and hold him for half an hour to help calm him.
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A child was taken. Taken from routine. Taken from familiarity. Taken from the quiet assumptions that adults would keep him safe.
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, moved across state lines, shipped to Texas and placed into a system that does not know his favorite color, his bedtime ritual or the sound of his parents’ voice when he is afraid.
This is not an unfortunate side effect. It is the cost of a system we have learned to tolerate. And here is the question Christians on both sides of the aisle must stop dodging: Are we OK with children going missing?
Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE
Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block the city's airport.
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'I don't think a year ago we could have fathomed how quickly and how dramatically this country would change,' Budde told RNS in Minneapolis.
Also See: Episcopal clergy travel to Minneapolis to march in ‘ICE Out of Minnesota’ day of action'Human rights emergency' a year into Trump's term, Amnesty warns
The human rights organization's report listed 12 'alarm bells' of the administration’s practices a year since Donald Trump began his second term.
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Republicans who back the operation have said it's community members who are making things dangerous. However, Minneapolis-based sociologist Nicole Bedera said research shows the opposite.
"And the reality is that things like 'ICE Watch' and mutual aid are de-escalation tactics – that they are ways of reducing violence," she said, "and that even though they do come with some risk, those risks are minimal in comparison to the risk of doing nothing."
Calls to defund ICE go unheeded in House vote
A coalition of civil and human rights organizations is demanding members of Congress oppose legislation that would boost the scope and cruelty of President Donald Trump’s immigration detention and deportation programs.
Nevertheless, that funding passed the House of Representatives Jan. 22 as seven Democrats joined Republicans to support the measure opposed by all other Democrats.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and his top leaders joined rank-and-file Democrats in voting no on the DHS funding bill, saying it lacked guardrails and accountability for ICE.
Why evangelical Christians need to start talking about immigration reform
Evangelicals are not anti-immigration; they are anti-chaos and anti-disorder.
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