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Last North Carolina immigrant to take sanctuary at a church goes home

US St Barnabas Episcopal Church Juana Luz Tobar Ortega

RNS Juana Luz Tobar Ortega, who spent nearly four years in church sanctuary at an Episcopal church in Greensboro, North Carolina, will be allowed to go home beginning on Monday. Ortega, 48, is the latest undocumented immigrant to emerge from the network of US churches that harboured people threatened with deportation by the Trump administration. […]