Priests Join “Pledge of Resistance” to Oklahoma Immigration Law

As we previously reported, Oklahoma recently joined teh club of states that passed anti-immigration laws.  Now, Archbishop Eusebius Beltran and a council of priests have joined an ecumenical “Pledge of Resistance” against the laws, the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizens Act, which was to take effect Nov. 1.  The law will make it criminal to transport, hire, harbor, house or conceal illegal immigrants. Violating the law could carry a minimum fine of $1,000, a year in prison or both. “In a broad interpretation, a church delivering groceries or any sort of humanitarian assistance to an undocumented person could be committing a felony,” the Rev. Lance Schmitz, minister of social justice at Oklahoma City First Church of the Nazarene, said Oct. 26.

KJ