A Salt Lake City church is gaining some acclaim as being a sanctuary for refugees. For three years, it took care of Vickey Chavez and her two daughters. With today's news, come news that immigration officials have now approved her appeal to stay. The senior minister, Tom Goldsmith, wrote an op-ed that appeared in the New York Times today.
Bless the First Unitarian Church, one of the rare places where refugees can receive sanctuary. For three years, Chavez and her two children lived there, fearful of going out lest immigration officials spot her outside (they do not make apprehensions at churches as they are considered "sensitive" places, along with schools and hospitals). Had they caught her outside the church though, she would have been arrested. The three-year-old daughter, who has lived virtually her whole life inside the church, knew the significance of Biden's election. "Now we can go to Disneyland," Goldsmith quotes her as saying.
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/4/15/22385806/mother-from-honduras-whos-taken-sanctuary-at-salt-lake-church-3-years-can-now-leave-vicky-unitarian
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/opinion/biden-immigrants-sanctuary.html
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