The Sanctuary Movement: Sheltering migrants against deportation

The Sanctuary Movement: Sheltering migrants against deportation

It’s the early 1980s. US-backed wars are wreaking havoc across Central America. And, in particular, El Salvador and Guatemala. Authoritarian governments have unleashed waves of violence on their populations. Trained death squads disappeared thousands. There are raids. US-backed massacres.  One after the next.  And so tens of thousands of people begin to flee to the one place they believe they may be safe… The United States. The very country help…