A local faith community that has garnered a great deal of metro love for their activism across the metro now fears that La Migra will target their services . . . Here's the word:
(Prez) Trump signed an executive order this week which lives up to campaign promises he made to crack down on illegal immigration.
The new policy takes away sanctuary status that keeps immigration agents from arresting people in the country illegally while they're at churches, schools and hospitals.
Hill said a worst case scenario would be for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to burst into the church on a Sunday and arrest members.
"It's really upsetting to know in just one fell swoop what was considered safe space for people, that could all be turned upside down," Pastor Mandy Hill of Redemption Church in Olathe, Kansas said.
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