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60 Minutes

Sunday, May 21, 2017

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Philadelphia's Arch St. Methodist is just one of more than 800 churches and synagogues offering sanctuary to illegal immigrants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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More than 800 American houses of worship

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are offering shelter from deportation

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to illegal immigrants and their families.

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We're taking a leap of faith, right?

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In many respects, because we don't know what's going to happen.

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They're daring federal agents to step through their stained glass doors.

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As a human being, I know it is traumatic for folks.

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But I will also say that the rule of law

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is something that America is built on.

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But this seems to be the one area where the narrative

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about separating families, you know,

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sort of gets a little bit ratcheted up.

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An average of 70,000 men and women pass through Cook County jail each year,

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many more than once.

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What percent do you think here

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really shouldn't be here?

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I would suggest conservatively that half of the people here in the jail

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shouldn't be here.

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The County Sheriff Tom Dart says the jail has become a dumping ground

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