Juana’s story: Seeking sanctuary in a US church
Al JazeeraAs immigration policies tighten in the US, two filmmakers document a woman’s battle to avoid being separated from her family. Through the social justice organisation, American Friends Service Committee of North Carolina, Juana’s oldest daughter Lesvi Molina connected with St Barnabas and brought her mother there to learn about the possibility of sanctuary. “Sanctuary already is family separation,” says Lesvi, Juana’s daughter, who has taken up a lot of the advocacy for her mom over the past years. She is sad because I can’t be there at her graduation.” In the two years since Juana took sanctuary, North Carolina – perhaps the entire country – has become a less protected place people living and working without documentation in the US. Recently in Juana’s family’s backyard, huge raids have led to the arrests of many undocumented people and were suspected by many activists to be “retaliatory” against “sanctuary” policies.
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