This NC pastor says Jesus would have protected undocumented people
Isaac Villegas, a NC pastor, has a new book that makes a faith-based argument for immigrant justice. For two years, his Chapel Hill church sheltered a woman Trump wanted to deport.
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The last time Isaac Villegas saw Samuel, Samuel sat in one jail cell and Villegas sat in another.
It was 2018. Hours earlier, Samuel, an immigrant from Mexico, was ambushed by plainclothes officers in the waiting room of a federal citizenship office in Raleigh, North Carolina. They tackled him and put him in handcuffs. Samuel had been called to the office for a biometric appointment. He'd been promised that this wouldn't happen, but promises don't count for much in the nebulous world of immigration enforcement.
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