translated from Spanish: Migrant in sanctuary city receives “impossible to pay” fine

Denver.- Peruvian Ingrid Encalada Latorre, at sanctuary in Colorado for two years, received an official letter from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) with an “unpaid fine,” the Sanctuary Movement of Denver.La letter, sent Monday, includes an “exceptionally large, but not the largest” fine, i.e. without reaching half a million dollars as has been the case with other fines that ICE has sent to undocumented “for not having left the United States as previously agreed.”

“It’s unthinkable what they’re doing to me,” Escala Latorre said in a statement. “We had never seen an Administration impose a fine as a punishment related to deportation. HELP US Click the Google News star and follow us
This is inhumane. For three years (ICE) it does not communicate with me and now they send me this letter and tell me that I have to pay in 30 days what for me is a lot of money, commented the Peruvian.

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“I will not receive any benefit if I pay the fine because I will not be given a work permit or residence,” he added. He considered the measure “unfair” and a tactic of “intimidation to scare us, not just me, but the whole community.” The Peruvian, a mother of two and a sanctuary since May 2017, asked “to be prepared for what will follow, because this Administration has not yet finished closing doors”. Calada Latorre intensified her participation in the No More Chuecos campaign in Boulder, northwest of Denver, where the church she is staying in is, that educates immigrants not to use false documents and to know their rights. Whitewash Latorre also urged you to march to the offices of Republican senators to ask them to “stop providing funding for ICE and the Border Patrol.”

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Letters with the fines began to be sent late last month, but had already been anticipated by President Donald Trump through an executive order giving the green light to “all fines and penalties that (the government) are authorized by v laws impose and collect illegal foreigners in the United States.” Fines are estimated to be $500 for each day the undocumented immigrant stays in the country after the date he is ordered to leave the country. 

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