The Conversation: Sanctuary cities in the US were born in the 1980s as Central American refugees fled civil wars

In Sanctuary cities in the US were born in the 1980s as Central American refugees fled civil wars for The Conversation, Laura Madokoro discusses how the Sanctuary Movement emerged amid a restrictive US asylum process and the Reagan administration’s refusal to acknowledge the extent of human rights violations in the region.  She writes that “[d]uring this period, churches, city officials and activists assisted migrants fleeing the violent conditions created by U.S. proxy wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala.”

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