Within hours of coming into office, President Donald Trump rescinded a 14-year policy prohibiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from arresting migrants near “sensitive locations,” including schools, hospitals, and places of worship. Within a week, ICE made its first arrests at a place of worship: a church in suburban Atlanta.
For faith-based immigration advocates, the flood of actions in Trump’s first two weeks underscored their need to build a sustainable church infrastructure to support migrants. Toward that effort, Fuller Centro Latino, the Association for Hispanic Theological Education, the Latino Christian National Network, Urban Strategies, and SojoAction have collaborated to produce a series of educational webinars.
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