This Church In Charlotte Is Training Parishioners To Protect Immigrants During Ice Crackdown: 'Loving Your Neighbors Is Holy'

This Church In Charlotte Is Training Parishioners To Protect Immigrants During Ice Crackdown: 'Loving Your Neighbors Is Holy'

This Church In Charlotte Is Training Parishioners To Protect Immigrants During Ice Crackdown: 'Loving Your Neighbors Is Holy' As the Trump administration rolls out another heavy-handed Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown in a United States city, residents of Charlotte, North Carolina are not going down without a fight. Over the weekend, ICE began deploying to Charlotte in droves, now touting over 250 arrests in the area over the past few days. An estimated 56,000 students have been absent from schools in the area since the crackdown began, and thousands have also walked out of school in protest of the raids.  Meanwhile, adults have also been posting up outside of schools, churches, and other community spaces to help alert vulnerable community members to ICE’s presence, as well as to document, and potentially even intervene in, ICE operations. Local nonprofit Siembra NC has been working to prepare Charlotte residents for this very moment. The Latine-led organization, which…