Professor Mario T. Garcia Talks Sanctuary City Movement

There are currently thousands of Central American migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border seeking asylum in the United States. And there is an administration that is refusing to acknowledge them as legitimate asylum seekers. History shows that the not-so-distant past was also marked by a great influx of Central American migrants fleeing the violence of the civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador. In the 1980s, about one million Salvadorians entered the United States. About half of those million headed to Los Angeles, where if they were lucky, they found priest Luis Olivares, champion of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement.

Read the full article in the Santa Barbara Independent.

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Friday, January 4, 2019