{"id":4949,"date":"2026-07-26T05:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4949"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:05:46","slug":"ice-sparks-fury-for-reportedly-detaining-pastors-then-threatening-to-take-their-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4949","title":{"rendered":"ICE sparks fury for reportedly detaining pastors \u2014 then threatening to take their kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Faith leaders are calling on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to immediately free a pair of pastors who advocates say were wrongfully detained by ICE agents in Texas on Thursday while traveling to a religious retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4947\">Elon Musk ridiculed for multi-day meltdown after contentious interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pastor Nepthal\u00ed Zozaya Saucedo and his wife, pastor Cinthia Sara\u00ed Cardona Otero, were detained by federal immigration enforcers after arriving at McAllen International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>According to the couple and their church leaders, the longtime pastors at the Comunidad Cristiana Emanuel Assemblies of God congregation in Edinburg, Texas were on their way to a marriage retreat in North Carolina organized by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association when they were detained and taken to a US Border Patrol processing center in McAllen.<\/p>\n<p>At a Friday press conference hosted by leaders from the Assemblies of God and the Latino Christian National Network, LCN board member Sandy Ovalle said that the couple has valid R-1 religious worker visas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are calling for their immediate release, the protection of their due process rights, and an urgent oversight into ICE\u2019s conduct,\u201d Ovalle said. \u201cNo one should be pressured to give up their rights under the threat of losing their children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Religion News Service that the pastors are \u201cillegal aliens\u201d who overstayed their visas.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the conference by phone from the detention center, Nepthal\u00ed said that the couple was threatened with separation from their US citizen children if they did not sign papers authorizing their \u201cvoluntary\u201d deportation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey spoke with us about separation\u2014to be separated from our children and even as married people,\u201d he said, according to Religion News Service. \u201cThey spoke about how much time that we could end up spending here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4945\">Trump admin fumes after Brazil kicks out US officials over election meddling fears: report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the press conference, Comunidad Cristiana Emanuel senior pastor Sarai Martinez Luna said, \u201cI think it\u2019s very cruel that somebody that had no status for deportation be pressured to sign a voluntary deportation based on the separation of their children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s news conference followed a Wednesday press briefing by faith leaders at the Texas Capitol in Austin to condemn the killings of Johan Sebasti\u00e1n Dur\u00e1n Guerrero in Maine, Juan Jairo Coronilla Dur\u00e1n in Florida, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not of God. This is no peace that we want a part of because let\u2019s be honest, this isn\u2019t a peacekeeping initiative. This is a terror campaign with the mission of traumatizing our neighbors until they self-deport,\u201d said Dan De Leon, senior pastor at Friends Congregational Church in College Station. \u201cWe don\u2019t need terror. We need peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elyse Rosenberg of the National Council of Jewish Women and Temple Beth Shalom in Austin said during the press conference that \u201cthroughout our history, we have repeatedly seen first-hand the consequences of governments exercising unchecked power on vulnerable populations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s event also preceded nationwide vigils in more than 300 communities across the nation on Saturday to demand justice for the dozens of people who have been killed by federal enforcers or died in ICE custody during President Donald Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe refuse to grieve quietly. We refuse to accept this terror and violence as inevitable,&#8221; Crystal Cron, executive director of Presente! Maine, said ahead of the vigils. \u201cJohan Sebasti\u00e1n should still be here with his wife and daughter\u2014and instead, his name joins a growing list of people killed by an institution that treats our communities as disposable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is bigger than one shooting,\u201d Cron added. \u201cWe will not stop fighting until there is justice for the Dur\u00e1n Guerrero family and a total dismantling of this lawless, criminal agency that took him from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4943\">Trump blasted after critics suspect he plagiarized joke during \u2018excruciating\u2019 WHCD speech<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith leaders are calling on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to immediately free a pair of pastors who advocates say were wrongfully detained by ICE agents in Texas on Thursday while traveling to a religious retreat.Pastor Nepthal\u00ed Zozaya Saucedo and his wife, pastor Cinthia Sara\u00ed Cardona Ote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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