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“Every Friday morning, religious leaders stand outside the Broadview detention center and pray,” said Sister Joann Persch, one of the attendees. “As religious leaders, we felt it made sense to go into those centers and to pray with detainees.” <\/p>\n
The bond for release varies between $5,000 and $8,000, an impossible sum for most of the detainees and their families, leading many to sign voluntary deportation orders upon detention.<\/p>\n
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According to reports from artinfo.com and the Associated Press, a $20 million expansion has been put into motion for the Ellis Island Museum, which currently features exhibits on immigration from 1892 to 1954, when millions came into the United States by ocean liner, stopping on the island off the shore of New York for the necessary papers. <\/p>
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Dirk Kempthorne, the Interior Secretary, said that the expansion would increase immigration awareness, as well as the museum’s “relevancy to the more diverse audiences who visit national parks today.” The expansion will be called the “Peopling of America Center” and will focus on immigration from 1955 to the present, through the eyes of immigrant families who struggled to gain respect and citizenship.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u0096\u00baMore ICE Raids Leave Small Cities and Towns Worried They Might be Next “These are huge paramilitary operations,” said Joshua Hoyt, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights director. “They use helicopters, Jeeps, mobile homes for processing people. They have to have jail space lined up. It’s very hard to do that in secrecy.” <\/p>\n But the warning system isn’t designed to prevent, just prepare. Socorro Leos, a community organizer for the Mississippi Immigrants’ Rights Alliance, said “We cannot tell people, ‘Don’t go to work.’ And we can’t know for sure when or where ICE agents will show up. But we might be able to soften the blow.” In the long term, the “sanctuary movement” could be a greater service to families, if more and more are displaced by ICE raids. Now, as they did in the 1980s with refugees from political violence in Central America, more and more churches are offering safe haven to immigrants. <\/p>
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The Houston Chronicle reports that several new raids have taken place over the last two weeks, from Honua Kai in Hawaii to Palm Springs, Fla. These have been on a much smaller scale than the Postville and Laurel, Miss. raids, arresting fifty to a hundred at most. However, the number and frequency of the raids has many towns across America concerned that their workers might be targeted next. According to a report from The Los Angeles Times, pro-immigration activists have organized networks to try and warn immigrants when their town might be targeted. <\/p>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Progress-Iowa-Spanish-300x250-1.png\")
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