/ Juana Tobar Ortega (center) pictured with her husband, four children, and one of her two grandchildren at an event announcing her sanctuary at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro in May 2017.
After spending
four years in sanctuary at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greensboro, Juana Tobar Ortega, an immigrant mother from Guatemala, will not be deported by the Department of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security granted Ortega a
stay of removal Tuesday. The decision stops department agents from following through with a deportation order unless it is revoked because of an arrest or conviction.
Ortega first sought sanctuary at St. Barnabas in May 2017. DHS reissued her deportation order following a
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