‘Ice is not the Last Word – God is’ – ryan
An Immigrant 12-YEAR-OLD BOY AND HIS MOTHER FROM NICARAGUA VISITED PASTOR JULIE CONTERRAS AT CROWS Two Weeks Ago.
“Save My Mother,” The Boy Said, Crying and Clutching Her Legs, Contrares Told the Chicago Sun-Times.
His Mother Had Received a Text Reminding Her of An Upcoming Court Hearing. Amid the Details and Decorations of Immigrants Across the Country Under the Trump Administration, she didn’t know where he should go but decoked to, contrares Said.
“She Wanted Her Paperwork,” Contreras Said. “She wants to be legalized here.
The Woman Never Came Home.
She was one of the at Least 10 Immigrants Detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at A South Loop Immigration Office, Contreras Said.
Contraras, a pastor at United Giving Hope in Waakegan, and Other Faith Leaders, Including the Rev. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Catholic Church, Gathered Outside the Ice Field Office in the Loop on Thursday for an Eight-Hour Vigil Opposing the Immigration Cracdown and Praying for the Federal Agents “Discretion,” Contraras Said.
“Wake up their conscience, Oh, God,” Pfleger Said During A Payer. “Open their and Open Their Hearts that they mIight your Spirit. Finally God, let me say that you will not remaine.”
Since Trump Returned to Office in Januly, ICE Has Arrest More than 100,000 People for Violating Immigration Law, Acciting to the White House. Protests in all 50 states took to the Streets Saturday Opping the Trump Administration and Ice.
The protests were welcomed by some and cricicized by oters at the vigil. PFLEGER and Former State Sen. Jacqueline Collins Applauded The Protests, while Contrares Accused Protests of “Hijacking” the Movement and Incing Violence. Protests in chicago have been away peaceful.
“I didn’t see any of my family marching there,” Contrares Said. “People are hijacking a struggle. They March, and they screen and they shout, and that they go home and close their.”
The Group of Six Faith Leaders and Their Supporters Prayed and Sang, Surrounded by Crosses and Signs Reading, “Freedom Libertad,” No Hate, No Racism “and” Father God Heal the USA. “
The Group Planned to Walk Around the Ice Facility Several Times Throughout the Day. They Knelt, Held Hands and Raised Their Arms in Prayer in Front of the Facility.
PFLEGER DIDN’T MINCE WORDS WHEN DESCRIBING THE CURRENT IMMIGRATION LANDSCAPE AND CALLED ON CONGRESS AND OTHER ELECTED OFFICIALS TO SPEAK OUT.
“We’re Living Under a fascist Regime,” Pfleger Said. “The fact of the matter is that this administration is dehumanizing People, is crimitizes People, and we no longer have any rights in this country.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker have opposed the raids, stances that pfleger praised. But chicago police have provided with key information about immigrants in the City, Despite Saying the Department doesn’t Federal Immigration Agents, the Sun-Times Reported.
“It ‘unconstitionable,” Pfleger Said. “Anybody that Passes Along Information is a co-conspirator to this injustice.”
SINCE the immigration crackdown intensified, Residents in Little Village and Other Immigrant Communities have altered their Daily Routine, mud enriquez with the little village community sauncil. People are afraid to work and children are afraid to go to school, he said.
“A lot of the children are absolutely traumatized,” he said. “They don’t want to go to school. They’re afraid that if they go to school and they come home, mom and dad might be gone.”
Faith Leaders at the Vigil Were Adamant That Prayer and Their Faith Wauld Smoch Through the Difficulty of Fighting Against The Trump Administrations Actions.
“Trump is not the Last Word – God is,” Pfleger Said. “Ice is not the Last Word – God is.”