Feds avoid immigration arrests at churches

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | July 12, 2008

CHICAGO (AP) Everyone knows where Flor Crisostomo lives, even federal immigration officials who have ordered her deported to Mexico. Her address Adalberto United Methodist Church is the reason they haven’t detained her. Another woman famously took refuge in that church as she championed immigration reform, and at least 13 other illegal immigrants are doing the same at churches around the country. So far, they’ve had little to fear. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have arrested illegal immigrants by the hundreds in raids at factories, restaurants, malls, farms and meat packing plants, but are handling cases involving churches delicately.

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