In Holyrood church in WashingtonHeights silence reigns this afternoon. No service, KeineBesucher, benches are empty, also organ and piano unoccupied. Not even DerBoden creaks. For Amanda Morales, se quiet intermediate phases are amschwersten to endure. The 34-year-old woman sits in one of back room, side of altar, and knits. Green yarn, it's supposed to be a tablecloth, but that doesn't matter eir. She's just knitting against time.
Since August 2017, Morales and Ihredrei have been living in rooms of more than 100-year-old neo-Gothic Episkopalkircheim north of Manhattan. The congregation had given her asylum. It was Dieletzte rescue before deportation. In se eight months, in over 230 days, Morales left building only two times. One time she had to ZumZahnarzt. And when first snow fell, she froze for a few seconds glücklichvor door. As next summer slowly suggests, no one knows how long Morales still has to stay in church. or May.
Amanda Morales, who was born in Guatemala and fled to United States in 2004, is one of about eleven million undocumentedimmigrants – immigrants who have neir US passport nor a GültigeAufenthaltsgenehmigung are called. By far most of m come out of Mexico, behind m follow El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. They have been living for years, many even for decades, in United States. They have established families, go to work, pay taxes. You have a circle of friends, a daily routine.
They belong to it. And n Plötzlichnicht more.
Ever since Donald Trump sits in White House, more and more immigrants are torn out of ir lives. At end of March, US Department of Justice Ordnetedas its own courts to become more efficient. All ZuständigenRichter are now instructed to complete 700 cases per year. At least. Those who do not meet quota are poorly rated. The aim is to quickly deport immigrants already covered by system. It is only last of a number of government measures to make country supposedly safer. In practice, Trump's nationalist policy causes millions of people to feel more unsure.
"No population group is spared"Barack Obama was considered a deporter as Inchief, as Chefabschieber. In its eight years, more than 2.5 million immigrants were expelled. But authorities concentrated on two groups: people who had passed border fresh. And people who were seriously criminal after ir entry. Who, on or hand, lived longer in country undkeine crimes, was allowed to remain – that was unofficial rule. She wasn't always. But mostly.
Under Trump, number of Festnahmenvon immigrants in inland – i.e. not directly at border – has risen to 42Prozent. The number of arrests of non-criminal gewordenenEinwanderern even rose by 171 percent. "If you illegalaufhältst in this country, you should feel uncomfortable. Then you better genauumsehen. No population group is spared, "said Thomas Homan, direct order US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, short ice.
The ICE officials are waiting in front of schools, Bisdie parents pick up ir children. They are lurking in front of hospitals undObdachlosenunterkünften. They go to courts to dortabzufangen immigrants. They carry out raids at work stations. Videos of brutal Verhaftungengibt's en masse. A climate of daily panic arose. Just keinUnfall, just no sickness, just no chance of ice catching you.
Date Of Update: 11 April 2018, 12:03
