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Actualización sobre la Inmigración                             Update on Immigrant Advocacy

3/26/2017

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by Fr Elwin Schwab

(Ver traducción al español)

We need to keep you informed about what the parish is doing for our members and neighbors who are threatened by our government about their right to be living here in the United States.
We are joined up with several neighborhood churches and organizations so that among us we will be able to provide a safe place for those threatened to be deported or for families pulled apart by imprisonment or deportation of one or more of their members.

In our parish office, we have packets of information that anyone may pick up that contain the facts and information that a person or family will need to know to be prepared in case of arrest or detention.

With the other churches and organizations we are making sure that we have the things that people will need if detention r deportation happens to any member of our families.

We are organizing a workshop of legal experts so that our parishioners and neighbors will know the laws and their rights and will be able to lessen and lower their natural fears on Sunday, April 23rd.
We have not declared our parish a “Sanctuary Parish” because the exact meaning of those words are not clear in the laws of the United Stated, nor in the minds of most people. We do not want to promise something that we cannot deliver. However, we are a refuge and a safe place to be. No one will be turned away.

There is one exception to that:

No immigration police will be allowed on our property nor in our buildings, unless they have a court order -  a warrant- signed by a judge.

Note” You as a homeowner or renter, have the same right. They cannot come into your home unless you let them in. they will threaten you, but the law is clear: They cannot force their way in without a warrant.

​Our Social Justice Ministry, our Multi-Cultural Ministry, our Pastoral council and our staff will be continuing to be involved in all these various parts of the developing situation, and you will continue to be asked to help us to help our parishioners and neighbors in need.
We thank all of you most enthusiastically, because you have been right there when we needed anything. We pray for you and hope that you continue to pray for us as we try to be the parish Jesus would have wanted to belong to.  

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Necesitamos mantenerle informado acerca de lo que la parroquia está haciendo por nuestros miembros y vecinos amenazados por nuestro gobierno por su derecho a vivir aquí en los Estados Unidos.

Nos juntamos con varias iglesias y organizaciones de barrio para que entre nosotros podamos proveer un lugar seguro para aquellos que son amenazados a ser deportados o para familias separadas por encarcelamiento o deportación de uno o más de sus miembros.

En nuestra oficina parroquial tenemos paquetes de información que cualquier persona puede recoger que contengan los hechos e información que una persona o familia necesitará saber y para prepararse en caso de arresto o detención.

Con las otras iglesias y organizaciones estamos asegurándonos de que tenemos las cosas que la gente necesitará si la detención y deportación le sucede a cualquier miembro de nuestras familias.
Estamos organizando un taller de expertos legales para que nuestros feligreses y vecinos conozcan las leyes y sus derechos y puedan reducir y disminuir sus miedos naturales el Domingo 23 de abril.
No hemos declarado nuestra parroquia como "Parroquia del Santuario" porque el significado exacto de esas palabras no está claro en las leyes de los Estados Unidos, ni en la mente de la mayoría de la gente. No queremos prometer algo que no podemos cumplir. Sin embargo, somos un refugio y un lugar seguro para estar. Nadie será rechazado.

Hay una excepción a eso:

Ninguna policía de inmigración será permitida en nuestra propiedad ni en nuestros edificios, a menos que tengan una orden judicial -una orden- firmada por un juez.

Nota "Usted como propietario o inquilino, tiene el mismo derecho. Ellos no pueden entrar a tu casa a menos que los dejes entrar. Te amenazarán, pero la ley es clara: No pueden forzar su entrada sin una orden judicial.

Nuestro Ministerio de Justicia Social, nuestro Ministerio Multicultural, nuestro Consejo Pastoral y nuestro personal seguirán involucrados en todas estas diversas partes de la situación en desarrollo, y se seguirá pidiéndonos ayuda para ayudar a nuestros feligreses y vecinos en necesitar.

​Agradecemos a todos ustedes con entusiasmo, porque han estado allí cuando necesitamos algo. Oramos por ustedes y esperamos que sigán orando por nosotros mientras tratamos de ser la parroquia a la que Jesús habría querido pertenecer.


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