Immigrant in Church Sanctuary Reaches One-Year Mark
Rosa Robles Loreto could leave the small, Tucson church where she has spent the past year. But there is no guarantee she won't be sent back to Mexico, her native country.
That's enough to convince her to stay put, seeing her family only when they visit the church and missing her sons' baseball games and first day at school.
She isn't alone. Two other immigrants living in the U.S. illegally remain in churches to avoid deportation, all women who are afraid of going to their home country for different reasons. They are like many immigrants left behind by lack of immigration reform.
Robles Loreto's case is unique in that her entire family is living in the U.S. illegally. In other cases, her attorney says, the government has granted leniency to immigrants whose children are U.S. citizens as part of President Barack Obama's policy to try to keep families together....
