En la iglesia Augustana Lutheran Church, the reverendo W. J. Mark Knutson declared that immigrants from Oregon who fear deportation had a safe place.
Augustana is an organization that provides sanctuary, and in 2014, it granted asylum to Francisco Aguirre, who is currently a member of the congregation, for eighty-one days after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service, or ICE as it is known in English, attempted to detain him without a court order.
