Some KC area church leaders pledge to offer sanctuary to illegal immigrants By LYNN FRANEYThe Kansas City Star Standing under their Interstate 70 billboard declaring, “Love the immigrant as yourself,” several Kansas City area church leaders pledged Tuesday to offer sanctuary to illegal immigrants threatened with deportation.None of the Kansas City churches has yet sheltered an illegal immigrant.But other churches in the New Sanctuary Movement nationwide have let illegal immigrants live on their properties, hoping that immigration agents won’t raid churches to make arrests.“It is the very soul of our nation that is at stake” in how we treat families in which one or both parents are illegal immigrants but the children are American citizens, said the Rev. Rick Behrens of Grandview Park Presbyterian Church. “We are losing our soul as we separate children from parents.”
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Churches across the city will now be featuring new roofs and daily landscaping.
