Faith Leaders Launch Moral Counteroffensive To City Occupations

by Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware

First, it was the National Guard and Marines occupying the streets of Los Angeles, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents snatching men, women, and children from car washes, schools, and Home Depot Parking lots.

And then it became Washington, D.C.’s turn. The Trump administration federalized the D.C. police and deployed the National Guard to patrol streets and round up unhoused residents. ICE agents soon followed, on a mission to round up suspected undocumented immigrants for incarceration and deportation.

For faith leaders, the stakes extend far beyond Los Angeles and Washington. If the rights of one community can be overridden so easily, they say, no community is safe. And, with the threat of occupation looming in cities like Baltimore and Chicago,