Undocumented Migrants Find a Safe Refuge in Church | Brut

When Rosa Gutierrez Lopez received a deportation order in December 2018, she sought refuge in this Maryland church, located only nine miles from the White House. The mother of three has been living in the U.S. for fifteen years — her children are all American citizens.

The congregants at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, had decided 18 months months before to become a sanctuary congregation. It is currently estimated that 49 people live in places of worship in the U.S.. They are considered by ICE as “sensitive locations” where “enforcement actions should be avoided”. If Gutierrez Lopez leaves the grounds of the church, she risks deportation.

“The hardest part was when I was separated from my kids. They stayed in Virginia and I came here. I was crying at night because I wasn’t used to being without them,” Gutierrez Lopez recalls. Today, the whole family lives at the church, and over 200 volunteers have helped them with the organisation of this secluded life: grocery shopping, bringing the kids to and from school, English lessons.

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They doing God's work to help the illegal immigrants, the bible tell us to love and treat them well as God had taken us out of the land of Egypt, give them water and food including money in all to help them with love