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Helping Refugees is a Religious Freedom Issue
March 11, 2020
We believe that the legal protection of religious freedom prohibits the federal government from prosecuting someone helping undocumented immigrants in a way that would otherwise violate federal law. The same is true of an individual offering sanctuary to immigrants seeking asylum: If the person is acting from a firmly held religious belief, then no federal prosecution.