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hrmjustin

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Tue Sep 9, 2014, 11:04 AM Sep 2014

Arizona's Undocumented Immigrants See Revival Of Church-Based 'Sanctuary Movement'

AP | By Astrid Galvan

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - On her 27th day of living in a tiny room at a Tucson church known for pioneering the popular immigrant sanctuary movement in the 1980s, Rosa Robles Loreto swept a courtyard, prayed with a group of parishioners and greeted her uniformed son fresh off his baseball practice.

Robles Loreto is a 41-year-old immigrant who lacks legal status and is facing deportation after getting pulled over for a traffic infraction four years ago. She has vowed to remain in Southside Presbyterian Church until federal immigration authorities grant her leniency.

Robles Loreto is the third immigrant to take sanctuary in a church this year in Arizona, reviving a popular movement from the 1980s that sought to help Central American migrants fleeing civil wars stay in the U.S. by letting them live inside churches, where immigration officials generally do not arrest people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/09/arizona-immigrants-church-sanctuary_n_5790104.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

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