San Francisco braces for possible immigration raids, training volunteers
Legal experts provide advice on how to handle ICE raids
Lorena Melgarejo, San Francisco Archdiocesem speaks to the audience at rapid response information and training on how to respond to ICE raids.
Photo by Sana Saleem.
February 10, 2017
Local immigration lawyers and activists are bracing for possible raids across the city after President Trump signed executive order aiming to block federal funding to sanctuary cities.
Sanctuary city is a term used for cities that do not permit police or municipal employees to inquire about one’s immigration status, follow certain procedures that shelter undocumented immigrants and don’t allow municipal resources to further enforcement of federal immigration laws.
As fears loom over possible US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids the city is gearing up by training its residents on how to respond during an ICE raid: “We saw that people power works, we saw what happened at San Francisco airport. So what we need to think about is how do we build a public campaign around deportation?,” said Lorena Melgarejo of the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. Melgarejo was addressing around a hundred people who had gathered for a rapid response network training at St.Agnes Church.
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