美国国家公共电台 NPR Sanctuary Churches Brace For Clash With Trump Administration

 

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

A woman in the U.S. illegally has taken refuge in a Colorado church, and that's triggering a fight over sanctuary¹ churches.

DAVID GREENE, HOST:

Now, this is a little different than the issue of so-called sanctuary cities. As we've reported, that conflict is less dramatic than advertised. Immigration agents can enforce federal laws in any city, the only question being how much help they can demand of local government.

INSKEEP: Some churches are preparing a more direct challenge to federal authority under the Trump² administration. NPR's Joel Rose reports.

JOEL ROSE, BYLINE³: Jeanette Vizguerra is a longtime immigration activist⁴ in Colorado. She is the mother of four children, three of them born in the U.S. Vizguerra was due to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement yesterday morning. Instead, she took sanctuary inside the First Unitarian Society of Denver.

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JEANETTE VIZGUERRA: (Speaking Spanish).

ROSE: Vizguerra spoke⁵ through an interpreter at one of two press conferences in Denver.

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VIZGUERRA: (Through interpreter) I did not make this decision lightly. I was thinking about it for weeks. But I think that I made the right decision in coming here instead of going to the immigration office today.

ROSE: Vizguerra may be the first immigrant to seek sanctuary in a church since the Trump administration took office, but she won't be the last. Across the country, dozens of churches and other faith communities say they're preparing to offer sanctuary to immigrants facing deportation⁶. Vizguerra has been in the country for 20 years. She pleaded guilty to using a fake ID in order to work in 2009. ICE officials say they've already granted her six stays of removal, and they declined to issue another. That's when Vizguerra sought refuge in the church led by Reverend Mike Moran.

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MIKE MORAN: It is our position as a people of faith that this is sacred and faithful work. We know Jeanette. We know her to be an honorable human being.

JESSICA VAUGHAN: It is illegal for anyone to deliberately⁷ and knowingly shield an illegal alien from detection by federal authorities.

ROSE: Jessica Vaughan is with the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit in Washington that favors less immigration.

VAUGHAN: Potentially, these church leaders could be placing their parish at risk for prosecution⁸ and fines. I hope it won't come to that.

ROSE: For years, it's been federal policy not to do immigration enforcement in churches and other sensitive locations, such as schools, unless absolutely necessary. That was spelled out in a memo⁹ issued by ICE in 2011 under President Obama. The policy is still in place for now. Richard Garnett directs the Program on Church, State & Society at the University of Notre Dame¹⁰ Law School.

RICHARD GARNETT: I think the administration thought that it was prudent¹¹, politically and just aesthetically¹², to avoid rounding people up in places like hospitals or churches.

ROSE: But Garnett says if the new administration changes that policy, it could set up a conflict between two of President Trump's stated priorities - on the one hand, his push for tougher enforcement of the nation's immigration laws and on the other, his administration's support for religious freedom.

SETH KAPER-DALE: God most definitely doesn't want to break up families.

ROSE: Seth Kaper-Dale is pastor¹³ of the Reformed Church of Highland¹⁴ Park in New Jersey¹⁵. In 2012, the church offered sanctuary to nine Indonesian immigrants who were set for deportation. Almost a year later, they reached an agreement with ICE allowing them to stay - for now.

KAPER-DALE: Sanctuary works. I can tell you from our own experience that all nine people who lived here have kept their families together, have been able to raise their children, have been able to go back to their jobs. Is sanctuary brutally¹⁷ hard? Yes. But it is a tool that we will use if we're forced by a brutal¹⁶ regime to use it.

ROSE: But Jessica Vaughan at the Center for Immigration Studies argues this is not a question of religious freedom.

VAUGHAN: I see it more as a campaign to try to push back against the restoration of serious immigration enforcement. I think it remains¹⁸ to be seen how popular it's going to be, if it's going to be at all effective. I don't think it will be.

ROSE: Sanctuary church advocates say history is on their side. John Fife is the former minister of the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Ariz., which helped spark the sanctuary church movement of the 1980s and '90s to help migrants from Central America get asylum¹⁹.

JOHN FIFE: That movement changed the public perception of the issue and resulted in the government changing its policy.

ROSE: It also resulted in the arrest and conviction of Reverend Fife and other activists²⁰. Sanctuary churches today say they're prepared to continue that work, if necessary.

Joel Rose, NPR News.

1 sanctuary   

n.圣所，圣堂，寺庙；禁猎区，保护区

参考例句：

• There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。
• Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。

2 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

5 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

6 deportation   

n.驱逐，放逐

参考例句：

• The government issued a deportation order against the four men.政府发出了对那4名男子的驱逐令。
• Years ago convicted criminals in England could face deportation to Australia.很多年以前，英国已定罪的犯人可能被驱逐到澳大利亚。

7 deliberately   

adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地

参考例句：

• The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
• They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

8 prosecution   

n.起诉，告发，检举，执行，经营

参考例句：

• The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
• He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

9 memo   

n.照会，备忘录；便笺；通知书；规章

参考例句：

• Do you want me to send the memo out?您要我把这份备忘录分发出去吗？
• Can you type a memo for me?您能帮我打一份备忘录吗？

10 dame   

n.女士

参考例句：

• The dame tell of her experience as a wife and mother.这位年长妇女讲了她作妻子和母亲的经验。
• If you stick around,you'll have to marry that dame.如果再逗留多一会，你就要跟那个夫人结婚。

11 prudent   

adj.谨慎的，有远见的，精打细算的

参考例句：

• A prudent traveller never disparages his own country.聪明的旅行者从不贬低自己的国家。
• You must school yourself to be modest and prudent.你要学会谦虚谨慎。

12 aesthetically   

adv.美地，艺术地

参考例句：

• Segmental construction contributes toward aesthetically pleasing structures in many different sites. 对于许多不同的现场条件，分段施工都能提供美观，颇有魄力的桥型结构。
• All isolation techniques may be aesthetically unacceptable or even dirty. 所有的隔离方法都有可能在美观方面使人难以接受，或甚至是肮脏的。

13 pastor   

n.牧师，牧人

参考例句：

• He was the son of a poor pastor.他是一个穷牧师的儿子。
• We have no pastor at present:the church is run by five deacons.我们目前没有牧师：教会的事是由五位执事管理的。

14 highland   

n.(pl.)高地，山地

参考例句：

• The highland game is part of Scotland's cultural heritage.苏格兰高地游戏是苏格兰文化遗产的一部分。
• The highland forests where few hunters venture have long been the bear's sanctuary.这片只有少数猎人涉险的高山森林，一直都是黑熊的避难所。

15 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

16 brutal   

adj.残忍的，野蛮的，不讲理的

参考例句：

• She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
• They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。

17 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

18 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

19 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

20 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》