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Sanctuary movement leaders sue U.S., claiming religious rights violated


Sanctuary movement leaders sue U.S., claiming religious rights violated
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Communities and congregations around the country, some spurred to action by anti-immigrant rhetoric in 2016, are working together to assist immigrants who are fighting deportation. File Photo by Justin Hamel/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 1 (UPI) Four women who came to the United States seeking asylum from persecution in their home countries allege in a federal lawsuit that Trump administration officials targeted them with exorbitant civil fines because they took sanctuary in churches and spoke out against unjust and punitive deportation orders.
The Austin Sanctuary Network in Texas and the Philadelphia-based Free Migration Project also are plaintiffs in the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, the day before President Joe Biden took the oath of office. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement ....

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Advocates push for ICE detainees to be released from Kandiyohi County Jail due to COVID-19 concerns, sheriff says he doesn't have that power


Advocates push for ICE detainees to be released from Kandiyohi County Jail due to COVID-19 concerns, sheriff says he doesn t have that power
At least 40 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees have tested positive for COVID-19 in the Kandiyohi County Jail, the most in Minnesota, according to agency s website.
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WILLMAR Following a COVID-19 outbreak at the Kandiyohi County Jail, advocates are calling for the release of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
detainees, many of whom have been infected or are under observation for the virus.
Kandiyohi County Sheriff Eric Holien counters that inmates are being taken care of and he doesn’t have the power to release inmates. ....

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COVID outbreak at Kandiyohi County Jail threatens health of detained immigrants


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Immigrants detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota jails have worried about the spread of COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic here in March. Now, more than half the state’s active detainee infections have appeared in a single jail facility in south-central Minnesota. 
To date, 26 detainees in Minnesota have been infected with the virus. But 16 of those COVID-19 cases are active right now, according to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. All of the infected detainees are housed in Kandiyohi County Jail in Willmar, Minn., and all currently remain in isolation.
ICE usually places people in custody based on their immigration status and past civil or criminal infractions, while they wait for their immigration cases to be resolved.  ....

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