September 25, 2020
ICE Enters Church Property-Against Its Own Guidance-
to Make Arrest

Dear friends,

ICE has crossed the sacred lines going on church property September 10th to arrest and detain Binsar Siahaan.

Binsar, together with his wife, serves as the congregation’s caretaker and lives with his family on the property of Glenmont United Methodist Church in Silver Spring, MD. This act was in violation of the agency’s own sensitive locations policy.

As faith communities committed to solidarity with immigrants, we are invited by Binsar's family and other faith partners to act swiftly, and across the nation, to ensure that Binsar is released, and that ICE is held accountable for this act on religious property.

Please join this faith leader sign on letter now to tell ICE, DHS and elected officials that faith communities demand freedom for Binsar and the protections offered on sensitive locations that are meant to ensure no ICE enforcement at houses of worship, hospitals, schools and public religious ceremonies or public demonstrations. 

Together with the power of the faith community, we can collectively lift up Binsar’s story to help keep his family together, while working and praying to make sure sacred spaces and all sensitive locations remain protected.


Please add your name to this *faith leader sign on letter now. (*Please note also that Lay Leaders are certainly considered faith leaders, too!)

If you and your friends and faith community want to offer support for persons suffering in detention, join our growing Disciples network to free the families!
Contact me at: Rev. Dr. Sharon Stanley-Rea, sstanley@dhm.disciples.org, 202-957-7826

May God continue to guide you--and us all--as we seek to respond to all God's children.
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