Faith, Community Leaders Submit Applications for Stays of Deportation in Support of Edith Espinal and Miriam Vargas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 20, 2021

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MEDIA CONTACT

Michelle Nealy, mnealy@faithinpubliclife.org, (202) 735-7123

Dan Clark, dclark@faithinpubliclife.org, (614) 648-3663

Faith, Community Leaders Submit Applications for Stays of Deportation in Support of Edith Espinal and Miriam Vargas

Columbus, OH —  On Thursday, January 21st at 11 a.m., faith and community leaders will stand in solidarity with immigrant mothers, Edith Espinal and Miriam Vargas, who are submitting updated applications for stays of deportation to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Columbus. 

Following a press conference, one ally will enter the ICE office to submit the applications on behalf of Espinal and Vargas. 

WHAT:

Press conference and submission of applications 

WHEN:

Thursday, January 21st at 11 a.m.

WHERE:

ICE Field Office

50 W. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43215

WHO:

Shannon Hardin, President, Columbus City Council

Rev. Joel Miller, Columbus Mennonite Church

Rev. Sally Padgett, First English Lutheran Church

Morgan Harper, Columbus Stand Up!

Tim Chavez, Citizen Miriam 

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