{"id":9278,"date":"2018-11-02T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/?p=9278"},"modified":"2019-06-24T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:41:10","slug":"local-man-on-life-support-facing-deportation-enters-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/2018\/local-man-on-life-support-facing-deportation-enters-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Man on Life Support, Facing Deportation, Enters Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wcs-log-jpeg-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wcs-log-jpeg-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wcs-log-jpeg-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wcs-log-jpeg-1.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Mohamed Soumah, a 44-year-old man from the West African former French colony of Guinea-Conakry who has been threatened by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with immediate deportation, has taken sanctuary in Ann Arbor Friends Meeting House (Quakers).&nbsp; Mohamed, who has been living and working in the United States for fifteen years, suffers from a serious, life-threatening disease that requires ongoing medical attention. According to his physician, he is essentially on life support.&nbsp; His home country lacks adequate facilities for this kind of care, so returning there would be a death sentence.&nbsp; His mother, who suffered the same hereditary condition, died there due to inadequate treatment.&nbsp; The average per capita income in Guinea is $825\/year, and average life expectancy is 52 years. The United Nations Development Program ranks Guinea 175<sup>th<\/sup> of 189 countries included in the Human Development Index rankings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Press-Release-31-October-2018.pdf\">Press Release &#8211; 31 October 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Press-Advisory-31-October-2018.pdf\">Press Advisory &#8211; 31 October 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How you can help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Volunteer<\/strong> to provide support: A volunteer training will take place on Sunday, November 11 at 1pm at the Ann Arbor Friends Meeting, 1420 Hill Street.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&amp;hosted_button_id=LRXM5757LQRD8\">Donate<\/a> <\/strong>to&nbsp; Washtenaw Congregational Sanctuary to Mohamed and build a sanctuary network for others facing unjust deportations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advocate<\/strong> to the ICE Detroit Field Office to give Mohamed&nbsp;Soumah a stay of removal for medical reasons as the medical facilities in his home country are inadequate to provide him the lifesaving care he needs. Contact&nbsp;<span class=\"value\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"mailto:Detroit.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov\">Detroit.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Advocate&nbsp;<\/strong>for more humane immigration policies. One way to do that is to submit a <a href=\"https:\/\/protectingimmigrantfamilies.org\/\">public comment opposing President Trump&#8217;s proposed change to the Public Charge Rule<\/a>,&nbsp;will make immigrant families afraid to access essential health, nutrition and shelter programs. Learn more at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/protectingimmigrantfamilies.org\/\">ProtectingImmigrantFamilies.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Soumah, a 44-year-old man from the West African former French colony of Guinea-Conakry who has been threatened by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with immediate deportation, has taken sanctuary in Ann Arbor Friends Meeting House (Quakers).&nbsp; Mohamed, who has been living and working in&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/2018\/local-man-on-life-support-facing-deportation-enters-sanctuary\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-america","category-rej"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9715,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions\/9715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}