Some Arizona churches to defy migrants’ deportation, offer them sanctuary

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PHOENIX — Several Arizona churches are preparing to offer refuge to Central American migrants after the Department of Homeland Security launched an effort over the weekend to round up and deport adults and children who entered the country illegally and remained after they had been ordered by a judge to leave.
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Immigration officials said 121 adults and children were taken into custody. They all had remained in the country after being ordered by a judge to leave. Many were already in the process of being deported as part of the enforcement operation, which mostly took place in Georgia, Texas and North Carolina.
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The enforcement operations did not include any Central Americans living in Arizona, said Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman.
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religionnews.com/2016/01/06/some-arizona-churches-to-defy-migrants-deportation-offer-them-sanctuary/
 
Arizona definitely has its share of migrants - legal and illegal.
 
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