Vickey Chavez News Today

After 3 years in sanctuary, mother steps out of Utah church and into newfound freedom Annie Knox © Spenser Heaps, Deseret News Vicky Chavez, right, embraces Lisa Hyte, a member of the sanctuary committee at the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, as Chavez leaves the church on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Chavez has received a one-year stay of removal after spending more than three years living in sanctuary inside the church. After three years inside a Salt Lake church, Vi...

KUER Vicky Chavez and her two daughters whove been living at The First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City for the past three years. She took sanctuary there in 2018 when she was facing deportation. Vicky Chavez continues to walk the halls with her two children inside the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City. Saturday marks her three year anniversary of living there. Chavez came to the U.S. in 2014 as an undocumented immigrant. She was fleeing an abusive relationship and political unrest in ...