St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church in west Los Angeles has developed a response plan in case immigration agents show up on the congregation’s property. Those plans are stored in easy-to-find pink folders at various entryways around the church’s buildings.
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LOS ANGELES – In recent weeks, Pastor Caleb Crainer began developing a plan in the event that immigration enforcement agents show up at the door of his congregation, a pressing concern after the Trump administration rescinded long-standing guidance advising them to avoid houses of worship.
“So we have three of these pink binders that are around the church,” he says, pulling one off a shelf behind his secretary’s desk and leafing through the pages.
