Safe Harbors?

[Ted Olsen]

When I was writing on this subject a couple of years ago
(http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/october/9.35.html) I found Wayne
Logan's 2003 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review article,
"Criminal Law Sanctuaries" very helpful:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/crcl/vol38_2/logan.pdf

Ted Olsen

-----Original Message-----
From: religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu
[mailto:religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Susanna Peters
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 5:22 PM
To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Safe Harbors?

I plan to discuss  this  NPR story in class sometime -- 
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94365290&ft=1&f=1001

It played yesterday about a church in Calif whose mission seems to be to 
protect/harbor/hide illegal immigrants under a deportation order - but I 
have a few question: 1) could the govt get a warrant to search the 
church (seems to be probable cause) and arrest any illegal immigrants 
residing there 2) if there were to be a prosecution of involed church 
officials/members here would they have to rely on RFRA? would there be 
any other protection for their actions?  I am assuming that the govt 
could certainly search and arrest but refrains from doing so from 
concerns about public reception - is that right? And, 2) that federal 
RFRA provides the best protection for involved church officials/members 
-- and would probably work (as in OCentro...). Is this right?
yt, Susanna Peters