美国国家公共电台 NPR Desperate To Avoid Deportation, She Hasn't Left Sanctuary For 8 Months

Desperate To Avoid Deportation¹, She Hasn't Left Sanctuary² For 8 Months

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

We want to go back to the immigration issue for a few more minutes in the U.S. This is about a tiny chapter of the story playing out in a quiet place far from the southern border in a church in Colorado. There, one woman is avoiding deportation by taking sanctuary in a house of worship. She's one of about three dozen people around the country. Aspen Public Radio's Wyatt Orme has this report on how this congregation is testing the strength of sanctuary under the Trump³ administration.

WYATT ORME, BYLINE⁴: At the kitchen table in the Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist parsonage, Sandra Lopez is learning English.

SANDRA LOPEZ: Madrid is the capital of Spain.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Spain.

S. LOPEZ: Spain.

ORME: The lesson is a welcome distraction⁵ from the boredom⁶ she faces each day. She says it's the worst part of sanctuary.

S. LOPEZ: (Through interpreter) When you enter sanctuary, you know the date, the hour the minute. But you don't know when you're going to leave. It could be months. It could be years.

ORME: Lopez and her husband came to the U.S. from Mexico in 1998. All three of their children were born here. Her deportation order dates back to 2010. One night that year, police reported her to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, after responding to her home. She and her husband had been arguing, and one of her kids got scared and called 911. For years, ICE granted her stays of removal until last fall when they denied her request.

S. LOPEZ: (Through interpreter) It's as if they threw a glass of cold water in my face.

ORME: That's when Lopez and her daughter, who was 2 at the time, moved into Rev⁷. Shawna Foster's basement in the town of Carbondale, Colorado. ICE has a policy of avoiding what are called sensitive locations - places like hospitals, schools and churches. In an email, ICE confirmed they still follow this policy. So Lopez might be safe from ICE inside the parsonage, but it could be years before she can safely leave. And that's the risk the congregation ran by taking her in. But Reverend Foster, who lives at the parsonage with her family, says doing so was a clear moral duty.

SHAWNA FOSTER: If Sandra's deported⁸, that's three children without a mom. Is that really what you want? Is that your sense of justice? Is that what the laws are for?

ORME: The congregation eagerly accepted Lopez and her daughter. What tension did exist had mostly to do with fear of government retaliation⁹, like ICE going after Foster for harboring someone illegally.

SUE EDELSTEIN: My concern was not, oh, oh, we might get in trouble. It was, if the worst happens, where do we stand, and how do we handle it?

ORME: Sue Edelstein was on the board of Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist. She wanted her pastor¹⁰ to understand all the risks before taking them. After all, Shawna Foster could go to jail, leaving her own children without a parent. It's a risk she's willing to take.

FOSTER: That's what happens to people who are deported every day. Every day in this country there are kids left without parents. And how could I just say, well, no, I'm not going to take that risk when I can see it's happening here in this very community?

ALEX LOPEZ: Going through this, it's actually so infuriating that I don't even know how to put it in words. I just don't.

ORME: Alex Lopez is Sandra's oldest son. He's 20. He was in school studying to become a mechanic, but when his mom went into sanctuary, she stopped working and couldn't help him pay tuition, so he dropped out. The congregation has raised thousands of dollars. They're helping¹¹ Sandra's family make ends meet with one fewer income earner and also paying for her legal expenses. Alex is deeply moved by all of the support his mom is getting.

A. LOPEZ: I don't know how to explain it - like, the way that Shawna came around and is basically, like, supporting my mom. That's (sobbing) I just don't know what to say.

ORME: But that doesn't make it any less painful to see his mom confined like she is. For Sandra Lopez and her family, sanctuary is a gift but also its own form of detention¹².

For NPR News, I'm Wyatt Orme in Carbondale, Colo.

1 deportation   

n.驱逐，放逐

参考例句：

• The government issued a deportation order against the four men.政府发出了对那4名男子的驱逐令。
• Years ago convicted criminals in England could face deportation to Australia.很多年以前，英国已定罪的犯人可能被驱逐到澳大利亚。

2 sanctuary   

n.圣所，圣堂，寺庙；禁猎区，保护区

参考例句：

• There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。
• Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。

3 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 distraction   

n.精神涣散，精神不集中，消遣，娱乐

参考例句：

• Total concentration is required with no distractions.要全神贯注，不能有丝毫分神。
• Their national distraction is going to the disco.他们的全民消遣就是去蹦迪。

6 boredom   

n.厌烦，厌倦，乏味，无聊

参考例句：

• Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom.失业会让你无聊得发疯。
• A walkman can relieve the boredom of running.跑步时带着随身听就不那么乏味了。

7 rev   

v.发动机旋转，加快速度

参考例句：

• It's his job to rev up the audience before the show starts.他要负责在表演开始前鼓动观众的热情。
• Don't rev the engine so hard.别让发动机转得太快。

8 deported   

v.将…驱逐出境( deport的过去式和过去分词 )；举止

参考例句：

• They stripped me of my citizenship and deported me. 他们剥夺我的公民资格，将我驱逐出境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The convicts were deported to a deserted island. 罪犯们被流放到一个荒岛。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 retaliation   

n.报复，反击

参考例句：

• retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
• He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 pastor   

n.牧师，牧人

参考例句：

• He was the son of a poor pastor.他是一个穷牧师的儿子。
• We have no pastor at present:the church is run by five deacons.我们目前没有牧师：教会的事是由五位执事管理的。

11 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

12 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。