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Vicky Chavez walked proudly out of First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City under a banner that read “celebrate FREEDOM.”

Credit Salt Lake Tribune This week in Utah news: A new 'homelessness czar' is appointed to oversee Utah's response to the growing number of unsheltered people in the state. Local refugee resettlement groups express frustration that President Biden has yet to expand the numbers of refugees the U.S. is willing to accept. And after three years in sanctuary in a Salt Lake City church, Vicky Chavez and her two daughters can now leave without fear of deportation.   At 9 a.m. on Friday, Salt Lake Tribune reporters Matt Canham and Taylor Stevens, and editorial page editor George Pyle join KCPW’s R...

News Roundup Afternoon Briefs: 2 firms give special bonuses; immigrant leaves church sanctuary for first time in 3 years   Paul Hastings, Sheppard Mullin provide special bonuses to staff and paralegals As many large firms continue to reward young lawyers for their work in the past year, Paul Hastings and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton are also providing special bonuses to staff. According to memos obtained by the American Lawyer, full-time and part-time support staff, paralegals and other timekeepers at Paul Hastings will receive $1,500 or the equivalent in local currency at the end of ...

Kelsie Moore / KUER Originally published on April 15, 2021 7:16 pm After more than three years, Vicky Chavez took her first steps of freedom outside the church that gave her sanctuary. Chavez is an undocumented immigrant who fled political unrest and an abusive relationship in Honduras back in 2014. Her She was waiting at the Salt Lake City International airport for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to call her about her request. When her lawyer told her it was denied, she and her two daughters sought protection inside First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City to ...

KSL TV SALT LAKE CITY — For the first time in three years, Vicky Chavez walked out of the First Unitarian Church Thursday and breathed in the fresh air and felt the rain on her skin. For the first time in three years, she knows the feeling of freedom. After a years-long battle to stay in the United States, the young mother was granted a stay of removal in her immigration case this week. "It has not been easy at all," Chavez said at a news conference on Thursday. Chavez faced deportation back to Honduras in 2018 when she sought sanctuary at a local church in downtown Salt Lake City. Since t...