Today is the date of the hastily called national support for Minneapolis under seige of Trump's Gestapo.
The clergy showed up.
Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department of Homeland Security agents, adding a visible religious presence to widespread efforts to counter the president’s mass deportation campaign in the region.
The faith leaders, who are in Minneapolis as part of a larger convening focused on religious pushback to ICE, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agents have been most active during an ongoing campaign known as Operation Metro Surge. The clergy, who hail from a range of traditions and worship communities across the country, sang on the buses as they ventured out into the street.
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Rev. Hierald E. Osorto, a local ELCA pastor who serves a majority immigrant congregation [...] noted that immigrant communities like his are also heavily active in pushing back against ICE, even if much of it is less public.
“For more than a year we have prepared for this moment,” he said. “Our families drew up paperwork — delegation of parental authority forms — so that if they were put in detention, their children would not be alone. We found people lawyers, so they could navigate the legal system where no one else is looking out for them.”
He added: “We anticipated this time of trial, but we still pray: líbranos del mal — deliver us from evil.”
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