Protestors Rally Outside of Church to Arrest Illegal Immigrant

By Eric Young
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, Sep. 17 2007 02:18 PM ET
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More than a hundred activists from both sides of the illegal immigration debate faced off Sunday outside a church where an illegal immigrant and her U.S.-born infant son are being sheltered.

The anti-illegal immigration group Save Our State, which organized the rally of about 120 protesters and counter-protesters in Simi Valley, Calif., said its members had hoped to make a citizen's arrest of the woman, who has identified herself only as Liliana.

"I'm here because I'm for the movement for the illegals to go home," protester Dee Barrow said, according to The Associated Press.

Liliana, who lived in nearby Oxnard before taking shelter at the United Church of Christ, has been living in the church’s former parsonage as part of the New Sanctuary Movement – the effort of churches in five big U.S. cities to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, offering their buildings as sanctuary if need be.

While some have called the effort “radical hospitality,â€