WASHINGTON (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Mayor Johnson is expected to testify today before a Congressional Committee investigating sanctuary cities, and many immigration advocates and clergy here in Chicago say they support his mission.
Religious leaders standing with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant Refugee Rights like Pastor Michael Ware of North Shore Baptist Church see Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance as a moral obligation.
“My faith will not allow me to not welcome in the immigrant or the stranger,” Ware said Tuesday.
Like Imam Tariq El-Amin of Masjid Al-Taqwa, they all stand with Johnson as he testifies on Capitol Hill.
“Let us affirm our commitment to standing together and up for our common humanity,” said El-Amin. “Let us remember the rights of the stranger, well there are no strangers, so let us treat each other as brothers and sisters.”
Another said sanctuary is a God-given right and a God-given gift.
The clergy said they will not let Congress divide our communities.
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