ICE drops $300,000 fine for an immigrant living in sanctuary church
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The message Pastor Isaac Villegas got on his cell phone was short and sweet.
“Un problema menos,” texted Rosa del Carmen Ortez-Cruz, a mother of four living in sanctuary at a Presbyterian church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. “One less problem.”
She was referring to a letter her lawyer received informing her that the $300,000 in fines she owed the government for overstaying her deportation order had been dropped.