Judge rules immigration officials violated US pastor’s religious freedom rights
United StatesRNS A New York pastor and immigrant rights activist has won a protracted legal battle against the US Department of Homeland Security, with a judge ruling last week that federal agents violated her religious freedom and retaliated against her following a 2019 incident along the US-Mexico border. In his ruling, US District Judge Todd […]
US pastor asks federal court to sanction immigration officials
Washington DC, USRNS The pastor of a historic New York church is asking a federal court to sanction immigration officials, arguing they offered “false or at best misleading” accounts in response to a lawsuit and put her at risk of arrest in Mexico under false pretenses as she aided asylum-seekers. “They consistently lied or hid […]
New documents show government targeted NYC pastor for officiating immigrant weddings
RNS New documents unearthed in an ongoing US federal lawsuit indicate the US Government surveilled and investigated a New York pastor and immigrant rights activist over allegations that she committed marriage fraud by officiating immigrant weddings along the US-Mexico border. But the cleric says she did nothing wrong and is accusing the federal government of […]