![]() ![]() But she, and others like her, are not ready to breathe just yet. ![]() In March, she had been granted an “order of supervision” from ICE, saying she won’t be deported. Vargas spent 31 months worrying that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could still detain her separate her from her two American-citizen daughters, ages 7 and 11 and send her back to Honduras, currently one of the most dangerous places in the world. Now that Joe Biden is in the White House, proposing a kinder, more generous immigration reform, the latest chapter of the sanctuary movement may be drawing to a close. Vargas is one of about 50 women across the US who sought asylum in churches, as a revived sanctuary movement emerged in response to President Donald Trump’s efforts to increase deportations and get tough on immigration, illegal border crossings, and refugees. “I do have that fear always,” she told Christianity Today through a translator, “that somebody is going to come into the church and take me away from my family.” After 1,000 days, Miriam Vargas still believes that God is watching over her and her two daughters as they hide from deportation inside First English Lutheran Church in Columbus, Ohio.
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