updated Sat. March 30, 2024
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WLOS
April 15, 2018
CIMA and the WNC Sanctuary Movement is actively monitoring community members were alerted to the ICE presence and mobilized to document the arrests and support the families who were traumatized by this attack on their families. Information has been gathered and shared with the volunteers on aÃâà...
OCRegister
April 12, 2018
Opponents of illegal immigration hailed the latest votes as victories as the anti-sanctuary movement continues to gain momentum in Orange County. In the past three weeks, cities that have passed resolutions or taken other measures to protest the state law are Los Alamitos, Huntington Beach, MissionÃâà...
Ventura County Star
April 12, 2018
It wasn't a raid. It was an audit. But when three immigration officials arrived at the 4Way Meat Market off Oxnard Boulevard earlier this year to collect employee verification paperwork, the visit stoked fear, witnesses said. Customers called the Oxnard store and asked if it was true that Immigration andÃâà...
Philly.com
April 5, 2018
The New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia will temporarily halt certain elements of its activism, taking time to reflect, develop new policies, and consult with immigrant communities. NSM, as it is known, expects it will be July before it fully resumes the justice campaigns and street demonstrations thatÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 27, 2018
Just more than a week after tiny Los Alamitos voted to defy California's law protecting immigrants in the country illegally, Orange County is poised to become a counterpoint against the state's resistance to the Trump administration's policies. On Tuesday, Orange County supervisors may consider whether toÃâà...
Joplin Globe
March 26, 2018
People of faith and American patriots have grounds to take issue with Kevin Wilson's characterization of the sanctuary movement in our country (“You cannot be left to decide which laws you want to obey,” Globe, March 21). Wilson calls out sanctuary cities and — in California's case — a sanctuary state,Ãâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 26, 2018
An ICE spokeswoman declined to comment on the change. Several municipalities in Orange County are voicing objections to the state's sanctuary movement, which has wide support among elected officials in left-leaning California. Leaders of tiny Los Alamitos voted last week to exempt the city from SB 54.
Philly.com
March 19, 2018
The dismissals halve New Sanctuary Movement's staff, calling into question the viability of a front-line, interfaith agency that has built an esteemed reputation over the last decade. Since President Trump's election, NSM, as it is known, has worked on overdrive, mounting street protests, engaging newÃâà...
LancasterOnline
March 10, 2018
Congregations didn't advertise that they were part of a sanctuary movement, says Judith McDaniel, who teaches law and religion at the University of Arizona and was part of the earlier sanctuary movement. At Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren, the Rev. Greg Davidson Laszakovits says the originalÃâà...
New York Times
March 9, 2018
They draw their name from the sanctuary movement of the 1980s. During that period, Central American refugees were routinely denied asylum because the United States government supported the regimes from which they had fled. In the face of this injustice, some religious leaders took steps to activelyÃâà...
Generocity
February 28, 2018
Editor's note: This interview originally appeared in the pages of APIARY Magazine's "Sanctuary" issue as "A Place of Abundance: An Interview with New Sanctuary Movement." APIARY Project Director Steven Burns conducted the interview while Erlina Ortiz translated.
Richmond.com
December 31, 1999
By comparing California's actions to nullification, Sessions attempts to tie the sanctuary movement to the Civil War and our nation's ugly history of race relations. Perhaps because both Sessions and Trump have been accused of racism themselves, the nullification labels have allowed them to turn the tablesÃâà...
Generocity
December 31, 1999
Faith-based advocacy organization New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia (NSM) is under fire for its executive director's alleged negligence in introducing an employee with precarious immigration status to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, as well as for the firing of staffers whoÃâà...
OCRegister
December 31, 1999
... laws, a group of residents gathered at the same spot Monday evening to deliver a different message: “Immigrants are welcome here.” Meanwhile, elected officials in Orange, Westminster and Newport Beach are scheduled this week to consider whether they want to join the anti-sanctuary movement.
