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History & Resources : Immigration

2016 - 2022

In the Fall of 2016, parishioners at St Michael's began meeting to study how to respond in love - individually, as a ministry or as a parish - to the needs of migrants in our local and regional community. The parish discussed its possible role in sanctuary and in assisting asylum seekers.

In 2017, we house an Angolan asylum seeking mother and two children in the parish and helped the husband/father obtain parole from detention in El Paso. They lived with us for 10 months and we learned a lot!​
In 2019, St Michael's was one of five faith-based groups that assisted asylum seekers passing through Albuquerque on their way to sponsors across the country. Remain in Mexico ended the hopes of many asylum seekers in Juarez. The City of Albuquerque funded our efforts to support asylum seekers in Albuquerque. When buses stopped coming, we received transgender asylum seekers released from detention at the Landing.
In 2020, St Michael's affiliated with ABQ FaithWorks Collaborative, assisting asylum seekers resident in Albuquerque and other marginalized populations experiencing housing insecurity. Parishioners joined Covid-safe teams of people from many faiths providing food, clothing, transportation and eviction prevention during the pandemic. 
In 2021, after vaccines were widely available, we started again receiving Covid-negative male asylum seekers from around the world released from detention at The Landing in the church. We work with attorneys in El Paso, and provide hospitality, clothing, food, shelter and sometimes a phone and a ticket get them on their way to sponsors around the country. 
In 2022, buses of migrant families again are being brought up to Albuquerque to go on to sponsors across the country. This is a collaboration with the City of Albuquerque using FEMA funds to provide hotel and meals while volunteers, including St Michael's parishioners, ensure appropriate hospitality, clothing and diapers, and food for the journey. This effort is part of the network of shelters in El Paso.

About Asylum

Following are authoritative resources on asylum:
Obtaining Asylum in the US
Amnesty International on Asylum
Guide to Asylum-Florence Project
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
ACLU on Asylum
About Asylum

Sanctuary Resources

Tracking Immigrants in Detention
Immigrant Locator
Amer Immig Council on Immigrants in New Mexico
Encuentro for language learning
Center for Citizenship - Catholic Charities
​Memo on Sensitive Locations 2011
Congregational Church on becoming a Sanctuary Congregation 
Sanctuary legalities for churches in Minnesota
Quakers on offering Sanctuary
UU on Sanctuary​​
ACLU on Sanctuary
Sanctuary Not Deportation organization
Diocese of New Jersey on Sanctuary
Diocese of Arizona on Refugees
​Dicosese of NC on Sanctuary
Episcopal Migration Ministries
​Know Your Rights on YouTube

Articles on Asylum Seekers

NY Times, 5 June 2019
Office of Inspector General, 30 May, 2019
​Volunteering in an El Paso Shelter
Sandobx Cooperative #83 - taking buses
​Sandbox Cooperative #82 - Marian Bock
Sandbox Cooperative #81 - David & Joe
Sandbox Cooperative #80 - Intro to Immig

Sanctuary Articles

14 May 2017: Quaker Sanctuary in ABQ
July 2017: Landscape of Sanctuary
​24 May 2017: Denver Indonesian Deported
5 January 2017: Harboring in San Diego
Feb 2017: Sanctuary then and now
​Aug 2017: Iraqi deported
Aug 2017: Republican compromise on migrants
Dec 2017: Two in Sanctuary in ABQ
2018: Presbyterian video on becoming Sanctuary

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  • ABOUT US
    • Meet Our Clergy
    • Meet Our Staff
    • Meet the Vestry
    • 2023 Annual Meeting
    • Our History
    • Contact
  • Transition
  • Worship & Prayer
    • Download Service Bulletins
    • Pastoral Care
    • Art & Music >
      • Visual Art
      • Music
  • FORMATION
    • Adult Formation
    • Children & Youth
    • Intergenerational Formation
    • Lenten Book Group
  • Outreach & Social Justice
    • Casa San Miguel Food Pantry
    • The Landing
    • LGBTQIA+
    • Immigration Ministry
    • All Angels Episcopal Day School
  • Give