Mexican Migrant Takes Sanctuary in Arizona Church to Avoid US Deportation Brad Poole - Reuters
go to original August 8, 2014

TUCSON Ariz. – Surrounded by about 50 well-wishers, including representatives from a dozen southern Arizona congregations, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico and longtime Tucson resident took refuge on Thursday in a church that offered her sanctuary.

“I don’t want to leave here,” Rosa Imelda Robles Loreto told the gathering through an interpreter. “My life is here. My children are here, and we’re going to keep on until we achieve victory,”

Loreto is due to be deported on Friday, but she will remain protected by Southside Presbyterian Church until Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offers her a reprieve, said Pastor Alison Harrington.

...The church said it offered her sanctuary because she is a good example of a category of undocumented immigrant made a low priority in 2011 by then-ICE Director John Morton.

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