Pakistan to start expelling undocumented immigrants on Thursday – minister
Islamabad Reuters Pakistan will start rounding up and expelling undocumented immigrants, including hundreds of thousands of people from neighbouring Afghanistan, on Thursday, the caretaker government’s interior minister said. Islamabad announced the plan earlier this month, saying Afghan nationals had been behind attacks, smuggling and other crimes in its territory. Kabul dismissed the accusations and rights groups […]
Another man is free to leave US church sanctuary as immigration policies ease
RNS An undocumented immigrant who had taken refuge in a Raleigh, North Carolina, church for more than three years will now be allowed to leave without the danger of being deported. Eliseo Jimenez, a 42-year-old itinerant laborer who worked in the state’s tobacco fields and later in construction laying floors, has been living at Umstead […]
LIFESTORY: WITH HER LIFE ON HOLD, AN IMMIGRANT WOMAN IN THE US MARKS TWO YEARS IN SANCTUARY
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, meets Juana Luz Tobar Ortega…
In the US, ICE deports undocumented immigrant who left church sanctuary
RNS He left church sanctuary for what he hoped was a short appointment with US Citizenship and Immigration Services. He never returned. Instead, Samuel Oliver-Bruno, an undocumented immigrant who had been living at the CityWell Church in Durham, North Carolina, until 23rd November, was deported to Mexico Thursday night. Samuel Oliver-Bruno with his wife, Julia […]
IMMIGRATION: IN THE US, SANCTUARY FOR THE UNDOCUMENTED COMES WITH LEGAL CONSEQUENCES
KIMBERLY WINSTON, of Religion News Service, reports on some of the questions facing those faith communities involved with the “sanctuary movement”, aimed at sheltering undocumented migrants in the US…