The Trump administration's hard-line stance on undocumented immigrants is polarizing: People have responded with either “throw the bums out” or “have a heart.”
But the question of whether faith communities can legally offer the undocumented physical sanctuary — sheltering them in churches, synagogues and mosques to keep them from immigration authorities — is not so cut and dried. Leaders of faith communities involved in what is called “the sanctuary movement” say there are moral and faith issues that sometimes trump the legal and political issues.
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