A Radical Expansion of Sanctuary: Steps in Defiance of Trump’s Executive Order
Source: Truthout
A moment of stinging clarity is now upon us. Today, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to set in motion the process of building a wall along the US-Mexico border, stripping federal funding from sanctuary cities, increasing the size of US Border Patrol forces and increasing deportations. In response, we must plunge even more urgently into the hard local work of building sanctuary.
A year ago, my team at #Not1More Deportation and I drafted this reflection on the nature of sanctuary: