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in every walleyball team, cheerleader, excellent student, and as she approached graduation, she was completely devastated and could barely even tell me what was going on in her life. i thought maybe she had a term fo that illness it was that serious and fell into a deep, deep depression. ir tried to pastor with him and good morning. it became evident that's what happened she realized, she welcome to mosaic. found out for the first time she was undocuments. she was the eldest child in her welcome. a wonderful sunday morning to family. the others were citizens and she assumed she was also. you. on behalf of my co-host and she had this whole life planned wonderful producer, welcome to out to become a doctor and she mosaic. >> i have with me today suddenly became aware that many reverend debra lee, the things would not be available executive director. she is a pastor with the united to her, federal, fi than shall church of christ. >> yes. >> and involved in all kinds of aid. it was crushing. she waited for a number of welcbra.t issues here in ea years. waited when barack obama was elected, hoped for a dream act. thank you elizabeth. thank you for having me. >> so glad to have you here. in the end she ended up self
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we always like to know deporting. she ended up moving to a something about our guests. country she had not been in you're a pastor but not currently in a church but since she was two years old. let her family behind and you're doing some other things siblings and parents here, but that we'll get into in a she left with such profound minute. tell us how it all came disappointment in this country, this country would not make a together for you. >> thanks for asking. space for her and she could not i think my call to ministry was achieve her dreams and she gave shaped by my upbringing and up. i don't blame her forgiving up. part of that was being part of she still wouldn't have a solution in her life. an immigrant family. that is ten years later now. my parents who immigrated to the state of ohio and i was one >> i can see how that story of very few chinese american would profoundly move and shape children, well basically the your call to ministry. only one in my school district >> yes, definitely. >> that. besides my younger sister, so let's talk about your call to the experience of being a ministry. tell us about the you' raciallized other in america certainly shaped my call to ministry which has been about faith and social justice and my doing. >>ye our organization works particularly with faith understanding of what it meant communities to help educate them and discern and to help to be other, what it means to feel a sigma tized or alone has them find their voice and leadership in some of the key led me to other forms of
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social issues of the day. ministry to stand with other we have been working in two areas, primarily, these last communities that also feel few years. one has been around immigration isolated and alone and wonder whether they belong here. with all that is happening and in our country now, this is a even moreso now, things that are being undone and the whole key question around issues of immigration and muslim system is becoming even more communities, other communities cruel and more brutal and more who wonder are they part of this nation or not and how long do we have to be here before violent actually. the other issue has been around we're considered fully part of ending mass criminalization and this country and able to participate and be able to feel mass incarceration in the ways welcome and a sense of particular communities have belonging. >> this is when the religious been targeted by a policy of mass incarceration here in communities need to stand with them and say yes, you belong. yes, you belong in the california and in this country. religious institutions and we work with 140 congregations here. did you experience that sense of longing in a ch as here in california. >> and it is interfaith too. it is. i think for my mother who was we work across different faith communities which is a wonderful opportunity not just to work together re an immigrant in 1966, in ohio, apiate the an with a strong accent, learning faith otheregions arn more ab h english as she was making her
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way with the young baby here, i in at process and to think the church was a place appreciate and break down the where she definitely found other barriers we have between welcome. she said that was the only people of different faiths place where someone sometimes. >> wonderful. affirmatively welcomed her in i want to go back to immigration and ask you what and that really set the course for our family and religious concerns you the most as a life for our family. christian leader regarding for myself growing up, it was immigration practices? >> i think what concerns me the also an important community for me, an important place, a most right now is the ways that formation, and also a place human life, the sacredness of that held contradictions that human life and human families often our faith communities are being utterly disregarded also hold racial and the kind of violence that contradictions. >> yes. >> so it was a mixed bag. is being created, and of course we are looking at the children i also was in a church that was at the border and that unsure about whether our faith devastating separation that is should lead us into practice in happening but that sa the street, should lead us into separation is happenin america politics and social practice and should we just be praying it to be mocal on things was my eryday with i.c. people's homes and taking parents away from children, sometimes minor children, and it is happening one by one so we don't see it in mass and we don't have the same kind of attention we're seeing at the border.
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as a young person growing up. it is also the construction of i eventually found another community that was really the border wall which already exists and i have gone down to putting all those things together in a powerful way. see it. the thousands of deaths that -- your mentors, who were they preventible deaths of young for you? who are they for you and how people in their prime that are happening every year dying on did they shape you? our side of the border for lack >> yes. i have had some wonderful mentors, people who have been of something so basic as water in pastoral leadership through and so the thing it is costing the civil rights movement who have helped to guide me and lives and this i believe hurts helped me to think about things in a really deep and important god deeply. >> absolutely. >> it hurts god's creation deeply and affects entire way. pastors who lived through the families and not even to japanese american internment mention the way that it affects camps from the asian community, the future of our world. as well, who before we had we can't be needlessly losing seminary professors, they were and destroying and creating so much suffering for people. doing theology with their >> i appreciated what you said community every sunday and about focusing attention on the border and that is important that we're doing that, but we preaching. i want to lift up the name of lolly o. reverend lloyd watt kay and >> absolutely. >> when we come back after our break, you're going to tell us recently passed and he was one how people can get involved, what they can do and hugh they of those important mentors. can be a part of this just
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he was freely unafraid to practice his faith. world we all want for our he was doing gay marriages in children. >> thanks. the 1970s. he was really outspoken of anti nuclear issues, on women's issues and he was an important guide for me. well, we want to learn more about how those mentors, how your faith shapes what you're currently doing and so when we come back in a few seconds we'll hear more about that.
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maria, so how's work? maria: it was 4th period biology. our students just weren't getting how easily viruses spread. so ms. bell and i had them role play a zombie virus outbreak. by the time they had all learned the lesson, all the living.. carlos: oh, that big sales meeting i planned? next year, i might get to go.
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kid: cool! good morning. welcome back to "mosaic". our special guest today is welcome back to "mosaic". reverend debra lee, the with me today is the reverend executive director interfaith movement for human integrity. debra lee, executive director of interfaith movement for you're going to start with a human integrity. you were going to tell us now story. >> yes. our organization works on two issues with faith communities. about what people can do here one is around immigration in the bay area to live out justice and the other is mass incarceration. i want to share a story how i their christian call to a first got into the issue of company immigrants, to advocate with, to protect, to protest, immigration. of course my parents are to resist and you have some immigrants but being born a citizen in this ways we can do that. the blind spots of things you >> yes. one of the things that concerns don't have to worry about or think about at all. me is thntn my parents kind of protected me system, immigration detention system. >> and the lack of from a lot of what they were
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transparency. what is going on there? >> lack of transparency, going through. one of my first st members of congress can't even get in, operating outside the assignments was with a group of constitution. this is a huge concern and it young people, asian pacific is growing and it is a profit islanders, youth minister. many were second generation families like myself but making venture and we have the younger, a different generation, and i began to see largest immigration detention how much the issue of system in the largest prison system in the world. immigration was coming up in we have 5,000 prisons in this country and over 200 immigration de tension centers their lives and in their stories. immigration is a young person's and they are trying to build issue because it affects more as we speak. families. we're seeing that right now with the children at the >> we have one here in the bay border, but that is one of the area. >> the closest is in richland, california. we have been working with the faith communities to say we most extreme cases. when parents immigrate and want to help to hold this somebody has to move away, it facility accountable because it affects children and it affects families all the time so i is right here in oubackyard could see how that was so since 2011, since easter of 2011, we have been having a manifested. i had one young modesto,alameri prayer service on the first saturday of y month since 2011 and the next one, there will be one in july and august, september. if you can't come to one, you can come to the next month.
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different faith communities have been leading that service there. it is a beautiful one-hour service of prayer and those who have loved ones affected and detained. ways to get involved. from that prayer vigil many other opportunities have expands to help bridge connection between the inside and the outside, because the only reason why this immigration detention center can continue to exist is because people on the outside don't realize it is happening. they don't realize the humanity, the beauty of the people on the inside. they have been able to create a sigma around anyone who is in prison or detention to make it >> dothe detaining know these h are taking place? >> yes, because sometimes we get families are on
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the outside and they tell them. also, sometimes we have been able to get people released and they join us and they -- one of the things they say, we never believed there were this many people out here. >> beautiful. >> it is such a beautiful moment when they are able to come out and we can cry and welcome them back in the community and say we got one person free. >> that is the first saturday at every month, 11:00 a.m. 5555 giant highway. >> what else can people do here locally? >> so what else people can do, we are also working with congregations todays sern to become sanctuary congregations. we know now there ov40 congregations in the bay area who have gone through a process to be sanctuary or being involved in the
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advocacy work and the accompaniments and those newly arrived are those getting out of detention. >> so all aspects to sanctuary. >> all aspects. it has become a big umbrella term to mean we stand with our community that is under attack right now and we're willing to covenant and be in relationship and walk with to see what needs that there are. not every congregation has to do all those things but as a network we do. there are easy ways for congregations to start and get ill volved. >> what are some of the questions that might come up from people who might have a concern about being labeled a sanctuary congregation? >> yes, definitely. one of the concerns is does it mean somebody has to live at the church? that is the idea people have in their minds and so we disavow them of talk about how the concept of sanctuary has expands. in fact, there are a number of congregations that have lily ng
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they are not someone with a final order of deportation so there is not a risk, but many people at risk live in their own homes and they don't need to be living in physical sanctuary in a congregation. we want to communicate to people, this is about a commitment to walk with the immigrant community and there are many ways. >> your congregation educates what this means. >> yes. another thing we do, we bring people into congregations to tell their story, families whose lives have been affected, someone whose loved one was in detention, someone whose loved one got out of detention. until you meet someone face-to- face, flesh to flesh, and your congregation gets to meet them, suddenly a lot of the fears and concerns go away i find. they say we want to help out
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sier so we have sanctuary dialogue and these my grant voices that come into the pulpit or the be ma or tsonga to share their stories and humanmize a community that has been de humanized very intentionally. >> that is right. >> when we come back we'll hear more about what we can do together as a christian community and more of pastor lee's story. >> thank you.
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so how was work? sam: it was thirteen hundred hours. my math class, room 302, was in the trenches. davy roth had it the worst. fractions were coming at him left and right. he just didn't get the damn things. two days ago, i tried to teach him what 1/4 of 1/2 was using different sizes of blocks. yesterday, i tried again by dividing up pizza. both missions failed. rachel: oh no. sam: but today...i was ready. sam: i created a combat math game where the only way to beat the enemy is to out-fraction them. davy conquered every last denominator. my game was so successful, the principal is deploying it to math squadrons all over the school. rachel: wow! sam: anyhoo, how was your day? rachel: oh, uhh... today my boss treated the office to salad wraps. sam: mmm, salad wraps. rachel: i know.
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welcome back to "mosaic". in this brief last segment we really want to hear more about what we can do with these families, so tell us more about what we can do. >> yes. currently, as you know, there are many people who are getting stuck in detention because laws have been changed where people could be indefinitely detained. >> yes. >> one of the part clericals is to sponsor somebody, housing and shelter for three months and an address providing someone especially people who don't have any family in the united states who are asylum seekers who have ledge nail come to seek protection, but
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the government will not release them without an address. >> they will still go through the court process. >> yes, but they can do it from outside detention. because inside detention it is very hard to get a lawyer. so to provide an address and stable place for three months until they get their feet on the ground and we can help to support them to find their next path. that is one sponsorship. the other thing people can do from their living room is to become a friend outside where people who committer to write to someone who is detained, maybe put a few dollars on their commission sarry books each month but to give hope. the most important thing is to give hope and build that connection that somebody cares for you on the outside. you have someone to vent to, you have someone to pray for you and that you just no someone there is concerned about you. that is another really concrete way. >> and then if anybody has a question about participates or
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being part of, you have a website that they can go to. >> we have a website i'm for human integrity.org. the i is for interfaith. the m is for movement. number 4 human integrity.org. we're happy to come and talk to different congregations and the biggest message is that migration is sacred and all through our sacred scriptures and we see the face of god and the face of the migrant. migration shouldn't be criminalized. >> in our christian tradition, we remember jesus was a refugee, the family fleeing and that is so part of our christian tradition and then seeing the sacred in our brothers and sisters and treating them as god's children yourgaathelps to ays that live out our christian calling. >> absolutely. and it is an invitation for us
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to practice our faith and grow in our faith. i can't tell you how many volunteers say how much they have reached, not what they have given to other but what they have receivend and how they have been transformed and are now different because of it and richer for it. >> where to you see hope these days? in the numbers of people who want to get involved and who want to speak out, people who i'm not normally, the kind to go to things and do things, and they are out there and they are saying these are not the values that we share and they want their voices to be heard and i think the faith voice is really important for that faith voice to be heard to give some moral compass and reminders about compassion and reminders about the values that are important. >> reverend debra lee has been our guest today, shist the executive director for the interfaith movement for human integrity. there are ways to be involved.
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contact her via the website and on this sunday morning, we hold these families who have been separated from their children in our hopes and our prayers and there are ways you can be involved. i want to thank today our producer hugh burrows. and wish you a blessed sunday morning. thank you.
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