{"id":10379,"date":"2019-12-24T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10379"},"modified":"2019-12-28T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T19:06:21","slug":"sanctuary-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/24\/sanctuary-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctuary Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from SF Gate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undocumented woman marks a year inside Maryland church<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Tan, The Washington Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Washington Post Photo By Michael Robinson Chavez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next to Rock Creek in Bethesda, Maryland, sits a six-acre church campus shrouded by old cedar trees. For a year and two weeks, this has been Rosa Gutierrez Lopez’s home, sanctuary and site of confinement. This year, for the second time, it is where she will spend Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gutierrez Lopez, 41, was the first undocumented immigrant in the Washington area to seek protection from deportation at a house of worship – one of the “sensitive location” categories where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are discouraged from conducting enforcement activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the nonprofit Church World Service, there are 49 residents in the United States taking refuge in faith communities. Hundreds of these institutions have designated themselves sanctuaries – a form of protest on the Trump administration’s increasing crackdown on undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congregants at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church had not met Gutierrez Lopez, a Fredericksburg, Virginia, resident, before she arrived at their doorstep one early morning in 2018. And she had not heard of Cedar Lane – had not even known about sanctuary – until several days before her scheduled deportation date: Dec. 10, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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