The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures…. ICE agents don’t get to kidnap someone, from a coffee shop parking lot, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process…. Holding someone against their will while refusing to tell them why, or denying them access to contact anyone, is a constitutional violation

Virtual Ministry Archive

The nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking about the day’s Bible readings and carrying little more than her rosary and cellphone. Sister Leticia Ugboaja has for years been granted protection from removal to her native Nigeria because she was likely to face torture there, and would have...if not for Congress members who ultimately intervened on her behalf. Ugboaja, who has a check-in appointment with ICE next week, said she wanted to speak out to help others, and pleaded for people to have the chance to be heard before being taken into custody. “There are many others in this same situation, people who have been given some form of protection under our laws, who have followed every rule asked of them, and who still live with uncertainty.” Welcome the stranger indeed.