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Pam Kruger

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Editor, writer, focused on immigration/faith, Religion News Service

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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Religion News Service has identified at least 25 publicly reported cases of immigrant pastors separated from their congregations during Trump’s second term. This is the story of one of those pastors -- and the impact separation has not just on a family, but an entire community.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
From #NJ to #Texas, some mosques are encountering fierce resistance. religionnews.com/2026/09/09/t...
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RNS @rns.org · 08/09/2026
OPINION: (RNS) — Since 9/11, violence in America has come from within. Hate crimes against Muslims, Sikhs, Jews, Latinos, Black Americans and LGBTQ+ Americans are soaring. RNS CEO/Publisher Deborah Caldwell looks back on how we got here.
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I covered religion after the 9/11 attacks. I never imagined the hate would outlast the war.
(RNS) — Since 9/11, violence in America has come from within. Hate crimes against Muslims, Sikhs, Jews, Latinos, Black Americans and LGBTQ+ Americans are soaring. RNS CEO/Publisher Deborah Caldwell looks back on how we got here.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Via @tialevingswriter.bsky.social religionnews.com/2026/09/02/s...
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Sainting Charlie Kirk serves the MAGA movement. It doesn't serve the girls who believe it.
(RNS) — One year after Charlie Kirk's death, former tradwife Tia Levings writes about how sainting serves Christian patriarchy and TPUSA — not the teenage girls drawn into his myth.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is a statement by Pierre Rona Bel bout the death of his twenty-year-old son, a soccer player and college student-- whom Bel believes died by suicide, after being outfitted with an ankle monitor by ICE. religionnews.com/2026/09/01/t...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
All I want is to see my husband back,’ said Denise Gedeon, whose pastor-husband was detained by ICE — one of two pastors arrested during a weekend that also brought a death, prayers and vigils for a Haitian community under siege. #springfield #haitians religionnews.com/2026/09/01/t...
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Two pastors detained, a student dead: Haitians in Ohio turn to faith amid fear of ICE
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — ‘All I want is to see my husband back,’ said Denise Gedeon, whose pastor-husband, Joubert Adrien, was detained by ICE — one of two pastors arrested during a weekend that also...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“At this moment, our immigrants are invisible. They are missing.. Their rights are missing."-- Lutheran pastor Eduardo Fabian Arias who now ministers to immigrants inside NYC immigration court, as #ICE arrests surge. religionnews.com/2026/08/27/a...
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'Our immigrants are invisible': A pastor ministers to the frightened at immigration court
(RNS) VIDEO — For years, the Rev. Eduardo Fabian Arias, a Lutheran pastor in Manhattan, has ministered to immigrants. Now, much of his work takes place inside and around Federal Plaza immigration cour...
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RNS @rns.org · 27/08/2026
(RNS) VIDEO — For years, the Rev. Eduardo Fabian Arias, a Lutheran pastor in Manhattan, has ministered to immigrants. Now, much of his work takes place inside and around Federal Plaza immigration court in Midtown Manhattan.
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'Our immigrants are invisible': A pastor ministers to the frightened at Immigration Court
(RNS) VIDEO — For years, the Rev. Eduardo Fabian Arias, a Lutheran pastor in Manhattan, has ministered to immigrants. Now, much of his work takes place inside and around Federal Plaza immigration court in Midtown Manhattan.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW: “At this moment, our immigrants are invisible. They are missing...Their rights are missing." -- NYC Pastor Eduardo Arias EPISODE 3 of Faith on the Immigration Frontline. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Pi...
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At NYC immigration court, a Lutheran pastor stands with immigrants facing ICE arrests
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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DHS, probing anti-ICE activists, spied on at least five Midwest churches, court records indicate
(RNS) — Church leaders were outraged and vowed to continue their advocacy for immigrants.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The over 1,200 U.S.-born Haitian children and infants under age 4 in Springfield, Ohio could be separated from detained parents. religionnews.com/2026/08/17/a...
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As ICE closes in, Ohio churches line up families to care for Haitian kids left behind
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — In Springfield, Ohio, ICE shifts tactics to stealth raids and ankle monitors. Churches are responding by helping Haitian parents line up temporary caregivers, preparing for t...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The new normal in Springfield, Ohio: #Haitian #immigrants in ankle monitors and drawing up legal documents giving power of attorney to neighbors or friends, in case #ICE detains them. religionnews.com/2026/08/17/a...
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As ICE closes in, Ohio churches line up families to care for Haitian kids left behind
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — In Springfield, Ohio, ICE shifts tactics to stealth raids and ankle monitors. Churches are responding by helping Haitian parents line up temporary caregivers, preparing for t...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Haitians are "hiding in their homes" and some are filling out legal paperwork to give power of attorney to neighbors or friends. Last weekend, Haitian leaders shared reports that one, possibly two, Haitian immigrants in Ohio had committed suicide. religionnews.com/2026/08/17/a...
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As ICE closes in, Ohio churches line up families to care for Haitian kids left behind
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — In Springfield, Ohio, ICE shifts tactics to stealth raids and ankle monitors. Churches are responding by helping Haitian parents line up temporary caregivers, preparing for t...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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As ICE closes in, Ohio churches line up families to care for Haitian kids left behind
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — In Springfield, Ohio, ICE shifts tactics to stealth raids and ankle monitors. Churches are responding by helping Haitian parents line up temporary caregivers, preparing for t...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Human beings should not be treated like sardines. We are not sardines."- El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz religionnews.com/2026/08/11/d...
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DHS wanted to build the largest ICE detention complex in the US. Here's how the plan just got killed.
(RNS, EL PASO MATTERS) — Catholic parishes and other community groups in Socorro, Texas, organized against the sprawling $126 million complex. They cited moral objections and warned that the town's in...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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DHS wanted to build the largest ICE detention complex in the US. Here's how the plan just got killed.
(RNS, EL PASO MATTERS) — Catholic parishes and other community groups in Socorro, Texas, organized against the sprawling $126 million complex. They cited moral objections and warned that the town's in...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Human beings should not be treated like sardines. We are not sardines."--El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz
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DHS wanted to build the largest ICE detention complex in the US. Here's how the plan just got killed.
(RNS, EL PASO MATTERS) — Catholic parishes and other community groups in Socorro, Texas, organized against the sprawling $126 million complex. They cited moral objections and warned that the town's in...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Inside the parish-led fight against a $123M ICE facility in Texas
SOCORRO, Texas (RNS and El Paso Matters) — The parishes that won Socorro, Texas, running water in the 1980s are now fighting ICE's plan to convert warehouses into a mega detention center. And the town...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
As fear drives many immigrants away from public life, Good Shepherd offers a counter-story: an immigrant-majority church led by an immigrant, committed to providing care, protection and resistance. religionnews.com/2026/07/21/g...
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Inside a Brooklyn church where immigration activism is the gospel
(RNS) — From encrypted apps to legal clinics: How an immigrant-majority church is responding to protect its congregation.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Out of the shadows:" A Hispanic evangelist pastor makes the case for immigration reform via @rns.org link below
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I used to go months---MONTHS---without a reporter calling with a tricky election law question. Now I can't go a few HOURS.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/07/2026
NEW from @fiona-murphy.bsky.social at @rns.org: A powerful mini-doc on the Luhmanns, a conservative Christian family that has been pushing back against ICE/DHS in the Chicago area for months. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXsn...
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Christian mother of eight tracks ICE activity in Chicago
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
religionnews.com/2026/07/08/i... via @tialevingswriter.bsky.social
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I was raised as Christian pronatalist. The movement is white supremacist.
(RNS) — Yesterday's Quiverfull movement has been rebranded as today's pronatalist movement, and they're both rooted in the same white Christian patriarchal fears.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Are we proud of where we are now?"--Rabbi Sharon Brous, founder of #IKAR synagogue in Los Angeles
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Government funding for legal services for children who cross the border without a parent or guardian is required by law, a federal judge ruled, but the US has withheld reimbursement since December 2025. religionnews.com/2026/07/06/c...
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Catholic legal aid group for immigrants nears collapse as US withholds funds
EL PASO, Texas (RNS and El Paso Matters) — The El Paso Diocese-run nonprofit is one of the largest providers of legal services for unaccompanied children. It says the US is defying a court order.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Quite a home page. Trump warns of a "communist" cancer, on the same day masked white supremacists march through DC.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On July 5, 1776, then President Gerald Ford spoke to immigrants at naturalization ceremonies at Monticello. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Was America founded as a Christian nation? Historian John Fea has spent his career studying the founders, and he says that neither side has the full story. 🎥 Watch his interview with RNS, Episode 2 of our series, "What Does It Mean to Belong in America?"
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Religious leaders have been talking about aliens for much longer than you think
God and aliens are having a moment. But what do Christianity and other faiths really teach about ETs?
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"We're not a melting pot. We're not a place where people have to melt their identities into some homogeneous goo." #america250 www.youtube.com/shorts/Q6cXW...
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Is “melting pot” the wrong metaphor for America? | Eboo Patel
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Haitian immigrants revived a church. Now the pews are empty.
(RNS) — With the Supreme Court set to rule on whether Haitians will lose Temporary Protected Status, fear is emptying church pews. At St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the Hai...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Meet the pastors who support the ICE raids
(RNS) — Pastors and other faith leaders have led protests against ICE in places such as Minneapolis. But this group of evangelical pastors believes churches should support the Trump administration's i...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Pretty amazing interview with Scott Pelley. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Pepper-sprayed yet undeterred: Faith leaders keep ministering at Delaney Hall
(RNS) — ‘We are called by our faith to put our bodies on the line if that’s the call,’ said the Rev. Robin Tanner, a Unitarian Universalist minister.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Meet the pastors who support the ICE raids
(RNS) — Pastors and other faith leaders have led protests against ICE in places such as Minneapolis. But this group of evangelical pastors believes churches should support the Trump administration's i...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Pepper-sprayed yet undeterred: Faith leaders keep ministering at Delaney Hall
(RNS) — ‘We are called by our faith to put our bodies on the line if that’s the call,’ said the Rev. Robin Tanner, a Unitarian Universalist minister.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"FIFA made a calculated decision to win over the president through constant adulation and sycophancy." religionnews.com/2026/06/01/i...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"If you want peace, work for justice." www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2_W...
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How a Catholic nun provides 'radical hospitality' outside Delaney Hall detention center
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2_W...
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How a Catholic nun provides 'radical hospitality' outside Delaney Hall detention center
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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In Los Angeles, a sister offers shelter and mercy to immigrants convicted of crimes
(RNS) — Sister Teresa Groth runs Francisco Homes, a housing program for formerly incarcerated men, including immigrants facing deportation.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
About 40 percent of residents in this Georgia community are foreign-born. In 2014, PBS called it a "laboration" for the future of America. Today, many refugee residents are afraid -- and advocates are scrambling to protect what they helped build. religionnews.com/2026/05/14/e...
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It's been called the Ellis Island of the South. Now residents worry about ICE.
(RNS) — As the US embraces aggressive anti-immigrant policies, Clarkston, Georgia, is now a test of how to best protect the diverse community of refugees.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13/05/2026
Subtext: Paine, in addition to setting the Revolution aflame with “Common Sense,” was a stalwart opponent of “mingling religion with politics” and railed against organized religion. His HUGE influence on the Revolution is undeniable, but watch how — or if — he’s mentioned at 250 events this year.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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A Christian nation? At 250, America is still fighting over what that means
Scholars say American history is more Christian than secular advocates claim — and less religious than Christian nationalists would assert. A look at the complicated, contested history of America as a...
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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How the sanctuary movement became the faithful's answer to ICE raids
(RNS) — The second story in a series about faith and protest.
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"Why is a documentary about Holocaust survivors DEI?" an attorney asked. "It's a gender-based story that's inherently discriminatory to focus on this specific group," Fox said. abcnews.com/Politics/2-d...
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2 DOGE staffers say 'no' regrets for people losing income, didn't reduce the deficit: Depositions
Deposition videos are providing a look at two people responsible for the largest termination of federal grants in the National Endowment for the Humanities' history.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Breaking NYT: The Trump admin just lifted sanctions on Russian oil currently at sea — allowing it to be shipped to buyers around the world as Trump scrambles to contain soaring energy prices because of his war with Iran. The admin claims the move is temporary.
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Trump Removes Sanctions on Russia to Help Oil Flow Amid Iran Conflict
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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I fasted for friendship during Ramadan and Lent. Here's what I learned.
As a Sikh, I do not believe in fasting — but I wanted to balance my religious obligation with my desire to have solidarity.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/02/2026
NEW: Three Minnesota faith groups/leaders — local ELCA and UCC bodies, and a Jesuit priest — are suing DHS over its refusal to grant them access to immigrant detainees at a federal building. It's one of 2 related suits filed against the government in recent months. religionnews.com/2026/02/23/f...
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Minnesota faith groups sue DHS over access to immigrant detainees
It's at least the second lawsuit challenging the federal government's policy of barring faith leaders from accessing some DHS facilities.
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