Nearly four months after the largest immigration raid in the last decade, which resulted in 680 arrests, churches in central Mississippi are still supporting the families who were impacted, reports Egan Millard in Episcopal News Service. “Initially, legal assistance was the resource they needed most. But now, with wage-earning parents either detained or unable to work, many of those families simply need food to put on the table. … Other churches have launched their own efforts, like the Morton United Methodist Church, which has collected over $100,000 to pay bills for people affected by the raid, NPR reported, and a Presbyterian church is collecting Christmas presents for the children.”
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