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5 DENVER CATHOLIC | MARCH 25-APRIL 7, 2017 Around the Archdiocese 303.743.8804 HoranCares.com Helping You Honor Life Uniting Your Faith and Finances Amazing Low Rate! AUTO LOANS 2.49 % NEW | USED | REFINANCED ** 60 Months APR * Call: 303.424.5037 Click: Fideliscu.org or Come by today Disclosure *APR (Annual Percentage Rate). The Annual Percentage Rate is the advertised rate. Borrowers credit score must be 680 and above to receive the 2.49% interest rate. Terms not to exceed 60 months; debt to income ratio not to exceed 45%; Loan to value not to exceed 125% of NADA value. **Oer not valid for existing Credit Union loans, or renances of recreational vehicles or vehicles used for business purposes; some vehicles may not apply based on age or condition; not valid on indirect loans.Oer only good on new, pre-owned and renanced vehicles March 1-31, 2017. Your savings federally insured to at least $250,000 and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government National Credit Union Administration, a U.S. Government Agency NCUA W ith the election of President Donald Trump, many immi- grants are uncertain of their future in America. The situation has ignited a national conversation about immigrants and their legal status. The term "sanctuary" has been making waves in the headlines recently after Denver immigrant Jeanette Vizguerra sought assistance at a local Unitarian church for fear of being deported. The term itself has largely been adopted by the media to describe cities where immigrants cannot be questioned about their immigration status and locations where immigrants can seek refuge and be safe from arrest. While the so-called "Muslim ban" has been garnering a lot of media atten- tion, there's another piece of the conver- sation that's equally as pertinent; that of the immigrants who are already living in the U.S.; those who have fl ed their home country in search of something better, established their lives here — and many of which are of Latino descent. The fear among many Latinos is still prevalent, as many wonder what will become of their residence here in the U.S. under a Trump administration. "For those here today illegally who are seeking legal status, they will have one route and only one route: to return home and apply for re-entry," President Trump said in an Aug. 31 speech in Phoenix, Ariz. The law doesn't give defi nition to "sanctuary" but instead describes places where immigrants are safe from any sort of enforcement action by U.S. Immigra- tion and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as "sensitive locations." A 2011 memo- randum distributed by ICE outlines that sensitive locations include, but are not limited to: schools, hospitals, churches, synagogues, mosques or other institu- tions of worship, the site of a funeral, wedding or other public religious cere- mony and public demonstrations, such as a rally or march. The memo states that enforcement actions are prohibited from taking place in any of these locations without prior approval by an ICE supervisor. In this event,¦ supervisors are to "take extra care when assessing whether a planned enforcement action could reasonably be viewed as causing signifi cant dis- ruption to the normal operations of the sensitive location." The policy does, however, call for exigent circumstances in which enforcement actions can be carried out without prior approval. These include: matters of national security or terror- ism, an imminent risk of death, violence or physical harm to any person or prop- erty, the immediate arrest of individu- al(s) that present an imminent danger to public safety, or an imminent risk of destruction of evidence material to an ongoing criminal case.¦ Should any of these situations arise, the memo instructs ICE agents to "con- duct themselves as discretely as possible, consistency with o€ ce and public safety, and make every e© ort to lift the time at or focused on the sensitive location." Sensitive locations, not 'sanctuary' BY AARON LAMBERT aaron.lambert@archden.org @AaronLmbrt U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lists churches, schools and hospitals among the "sensitive locations" where immi- grants are safe from immigration enforcement actions. PHOTO BY ANDREW WRIGHT

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