Bishop Eli de La Rosa says his slogan is “the worst preparation and praying for the best.”
Da La Rosa, who oversees the church’s prophecy in the nine southeastern states, says he had to respond immediately to the Trump administration’s new orders, which is. Throw policies It banned immigration in sensitive places such as schools and synagogues.
Da La Rosa said the move has influenced 32 clergy of Litino Angeli Basharat who are without legal status here and served in the weakest communities in the region. The bishop has instructed each party with the risky priests to prepare three lipopals to deport their leader. He has also asked them to keep every service flowing, and “continue the recording until something happens.”
“Some of my priests are serving with the doors, because they are afraid that the immigration agents will explode at any time,” he said. “I feel so bad and so helpless that I can do nothing more for them.”
Da La Rosa echoed the sentiments of thousands of Latino Evan Evangible Christians in Florida and several other beliefs representing Swat in the southeast. They Worry about the sanctity of their sacred placesAnd the possibility of immigration raids and arrests.
A statement from the Homeland Security Department on January 20 said that the President’s Executive Order will empower immigration and customs implementation and customs and border protection officers to enforce immigration laws. “The culprits will no longer be hidden in US schools and churches. To avoid arrest.”
“Community members, including many people who support Donald Trump, say,” said Easton Coles, a spokesman for the Spanish councils and the Florida Fellowship, a spokesman for the Florida Fellowships. In the last elections The bicycle, is now destroyed and abandoned.
“Messaging seems to be guilty of whatever non -documentary,” he said. “Latino -Angeli newsletters voted for the Republican for most of the part and conducted conservative ideas on issues like abortion. We want to ask the president to re -consider it because these steps are in our churches and ahead of it. All families are causing pain and trauma.
Coels said his organization would lobby lawmakers in Washington and Florida to restore laws that could protect sensitive places like synagogues.
“Our real focus is the unity of families and many children who will be affected or left behind without their parents,” he said.
National Spanish Christian Leadership Conference President Pastor Samuel Rodrig, who advised President Trump about immigration during his first term, says he was assured by the “acquaintances” on several occasions that the houses of worship There is nothing to be scared.
He said, “It should be anger of zero because it is from churches because no one is going to come with a gun or without a church.” “It’s never going to happen.”
However, Rodrig said agents can survey a church if they suspect that someone engaged in criminal activity is seeking refuge there. And he said that people who are here illegally – even if they have been in the United States for decades – if they are living here or are around someone who is here illegally here And he has committed a crime.
The National Association of Evangelists, which says it represents 40 parties and served millions, expressed disappointment over the executive order.
On January 22, he emphasized that “it is annoying to protect houses, schools and immigration enforcement houses from health care houses.”
The priests who are seeing the effects of these orders on earth agree.
A medium -sized church of the prophecy party in the Florida city of Kasimami, guided by Centro Christian El Pan D. Wada. “The churches of Latin Angel Basharat said,” Like a large family that consists of families, “said Eastbin Rodrig. “In his community, those who are here without legal status, are also afraid to go to work, church and food pants to meet their basic needs,” he said.
Rodrig said he was helping some parties to talk to their immigration requests and talk to the lawyers to find out how the church could help.
Latin churches have spent decades to make these sacred places at a great price, without relying on government aid, says Latino Field Coordinator, Revenue Robin and Taiz, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Ortez said he was upset to hear about an incident outside a church in the Atlanta Area where a person was arrested while a service was being done inside him.
The Bible clearly states that the church is the place of a shelter and these laws challenge that the sacred belief has been challenged.
“We are getting calls from the members who say they do not feel safe in our churches,” he said. “We are going to answer with asylum. We are going to embrace everyone, regardless of their immigration. Everyone can find refuge in our churches and find it.
Thomas A Senz, president and general councilor of Mexico’s US Legal Defense and Education Fund, said he does not expect immigration authorities involved in raids on churches that violate the constitutional right of people’s collection and worship.
“What they can do and can target a certain person who is probably reading in the church,” he said. “I’ll expect more.”
Senz said the law is ridiculous about whether churches can legally provide shelter to those who are illegally part of their faith, but to give strong arguments for it. Will
He said, “People should know that they have the rights that protect them, and that they are allies inside and outside their church who in the event of a violation of their constitutional rights. Will express. “
The Latin Angel good news is in a unique place because they are influenced by the theology of the churches of white evangelical good news, whose priests and leaders are also the strongest voice against immigration. Immigration and religion.
Barba said many independent churches and diverse organizations have been included in the Latin Angel Good News community, which is united, lack of central education about immigration.
“Even in the Catholic Church, there is a strong ideology and social education about immigration,” he said. “Without it, we face a little more hesitant or uncertainty about whether Litino pastors should be involved in such sacred resistance.”
Bishop Ibnar Edruno, along with God’s assemblies in Florida’s multinational district, said he was bowing down in the Bible, where he says immigration education is clearly clear. He pointed to the exception 10:19, saying: “So too, you should show love to foreigners when you were once foreigners in the Egyptian soil.”
“This verse describes a foundation of concern for the Christian immigrants and refugees,” he said. “Although the government’s concern should be implemented, the role of the church should be sympathetic.”
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