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Reply Hilda Ramirez escaped the violence of her native Guatemala in order to save her son's life amid recruitment efforts by violent gangs. (Austin Sanctuary Network) AUSTIN, TX — Four women living in sanctuary — including one living in an Austin church to avoid being deported — filed a lawsuit Tuesday against U.S. immigration officials for targeting them with retaliatory and excessive civil fines. The women were joined in the lawsuit by Austin Sanctuary Network and Free Migration Project. Each plaintiff is a leader in the modern sanctuary movement begun in the 1980s as a resistance to ...

ICE Is Targeting Women in Sanctuary With Obscure Laws and Retaliatory Fines Paper dolls are held by demonstrators protesting outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters to demand the release of immigrants families in detention centers at risk during the coronavirus pandemic, in Washington, D.C., on July 17, 2020. OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP via Getty Images By Around Thanksgiving, another letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrived for Hilda Ramirez at Austin, Texas’, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church. The federal immigration agency’s latest ...