Calif. faith leaders work to support immigrants

Calif. faith leaders work to support immigrants

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Outside a Southern California immigration court, the Rev. Oona Casanova Vazquez sat beside a nervous Peruvian national as he waited for a judge to call his name — talking, smiling, even handing him a mint.

'There Really Is No Escape': Faith Leaders Help Immigrants Face Court As ICE Arrests Rise

Clergy are accompanying immigrants to court appointments to provide comfort and information and, in cases where their worst fears are realized, to pick up the pieces of a shattered American dream. The post ‘There Really Is No Escape’: Faith Leaders Help Immigrants Face Court As ICE Arrests Rise appeared first on Word&Way.

As Latino communities live in fear of ICE, LA Catholics find ways to help hurting families - Catholic Review

LOS ANGELES (OSV News) — There’s no getting around the word: Fear. In largely Latino communities across Southern California shaken by weeks of immigration enforcement raids on city sidewalks and local businesses, the fear has forced unauthorized immigrants inside, shut out from work, from church, from life. It’s not just them. Others are fearful that this is happening in their cities, to their loved ones, to their fellow parishioners, to their n…