Elkhart - Goshen Sanctuary Coalition

02/01/2025

02/01/2025

02/26/2020

La Corte Suprema dictamina que los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza que disparan a ciudadanos extranjeros no pueden ser demandados

In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled Tuesday that families of noncitizens shot by federal agents on foreign territory have no constitutional right to sue for damages in U.S. courts.

12/23/2018

Last year, we shared with you the story of Irma and Oscar Sanchez, who were taking their infant son to the emergency room near Brownsville, Texas, when they were intercepted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, questioned, and put into immigration proceedings.

12/03/2018

Photo: Isaac Villegas is arrested. Still photo from video by Travis Long/The News & Observer. Isaac Villegas, pastor of Chapel Hill (North Carolina) Mennonite Fellowship, was arrested Nov. 23, along with 26 others, for obstructing immigration officers who were arresting Samuel Oliver-Bruno, who was....

12/01/2018

Sanctuary in the Netherlands

A church in the Netherlands is holding an around-the-clock service that has lasted more than 800 hours, to shield a family from deportation.

11/30/2018

Samuel Oliver-Bruno took refuge in a church basement for 11 months until he was detained during an appointment with immigration authorities last week.

10/30/2018

An update and reflection from Pastor Joel Miller on Edith Espinal's one year of sanctuary at Columbus Mennonite Church.

Photo: In observation of Mother’s Day, Columbus Mennonite Church held an event May 10 that put Edith Espinal’s story alongside two other mothers: facing separation from children through possible deportation (Espinal), living without a son killed by Columbus police, and leaving behind a child in ...

09/29/2018

Edith Espinal has spent a year in sanctuary at Columbus Mennonite Church. She reflects, "For people like me who are in sanctuary, what we need is to get out of sanctuary. We have to put more pressure on politicians for them to change the immigration laws, [and] to let them know the power that the community has.”

In addition to interviewing Espinal, this article makes a strong case for the ongoing importance of the sanctuary movement:

"Refugee advocates say the sanctuary movement is especially important in the broader context of family separations at the border, the administration’s attempts to change asylum laws, the prosecution of immigrant parents and detention of their children."

Edith Espinal, an undocumented immigrant who has lived in Columbus for over 20 years, has spent the past year away from her family, under an Obama-era policy

08/11/2018

08/01/2018

“The relationship we had is broken, the trust we had is broken.”

Immigrant families – even after being reunited – tell stories of long-term trauma caused by the separation policy

07/16/2018

"When you’re in detention, they own you. You’re impotent. They take a hold of you. And that’s where the uncertainty comes in. You don’t know if it will be weeks, months, or years until they make a decision. It becomes difficult to tell reality from fiction. It changes your state of mind. It’s like you are dead, but actually you are alive." -- Floricel Liborio Ramos

I spent 11 months in US immigration detention. Here’s what happened