News & Updates

US Bishops Rebuke “Mass Deportation” of Immigrants, Nov 12, 2025

The Bishops framed the immigration crisis in starkly moral terms, writing, “We feel compelled
now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity.”

New Hampshire Sanctuary Communties
Press Conference Oct. 28, 2025

Sanctuary Communities Press Release

For more information:                                                                          
https://www.WeAreSanctuaryCommunities.com            
we.are.sanctuary.communities@protonmail.com              
603/631-6461 or 978/918-5048

Press conference held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Concord                                                           

N.H. Residents Blanket State with “Sanctuary Communities”

Citizen Groups Defend Against Assaults by Masked ICE Agents

CONCORD, NH (October 28, 2025)  At a Concord news conference today, New Hampshire residents announced the formation of Sanctuary Communities that cover its cities and towns. Multiple groups have joined together to protect their communities from federal agents who are detaining legal immigrants and American citizens alike.

“We call ourselves the Live Free or Die State,” said spokesperson Megan Chapman, a mother and attorney, “and we can’t sit by while police-state tactics threaten our communities. We will resist federal efforts that intimidate our neighbors and threaten our democracy.”

Statewide organizers of New Hampshire Sanctuary Communities note that while the Trump Administration is threatening American municipalities that have declared themselves Sanctuary Cities, private citizen groups are free to organize themselves to oppose federal immigration policies that they say are reminiscent of gestapo actions in Nazi Germany.

Eight area-wide Sanctuary Communities have formed across the state, the first being the North Country Sanctuary Community created by residents of towns and rural areas in the state’s northernmost region. Another group, the Capitol Area Sanctuary Community, includes numerous towns surrounding Concord, and the state capitol itself. Their action comes after Governor Kelly Ayotte recently signed a law to make Sanctuary Cities illegal statewide.

“Ayotte does not speak for us,” noted Ken Barnes, a retired Concord attorney. “She may be willing to comply with Mr. Trump’s harsh treatment of our friends and neighbors by ICE, but we reject their unlawful police-state tactics.”

The state’s Sanctuary Communities will engage in various activities: monitoring and videotaping ICE raids; providing witness information to state and national media and local law enforcement; informing houses of worship, veterans groups, health facilities and schools about heavy-handed ICE actions; and writing letters and placing ads to oppose police-state tactics that threaten legal immigrants, neighbors and fellow citizens.

The development of New Hampshire Sanctuary Communities is part of a national effort to create them across states, to provide protection against secret agents in unmarked cars abducting people off the streets. For more information: https://www.WeAreSanctuaryCommunities.com/.

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Press packet / Handouts: List of NH SCs NH SCs Q & A
Chapman statement Baker statement Kaifer statement

Media Coverage:
InDepthNH.org NHPR.org Concord Monitor. NH Journal Manchester Union Leader Boston Globe Caledonian Record Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Gov. Ayotte’s same-day press release

Press Advisory

Thursday, October 23, 2025

NEW HAMPSHIRE SANCTUARY COMMUNITIES
we.are.sanctuary.communities@protonmail.com
For information: email above

Residents Across New Hampshire Unite to Protect Communities
from ICE Intimidation
First Such Statewide Action, Other States Expected to Follow

News Conference
Tuesday, October 28, 2025—11:00 a.m.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
21 Centre Street
Concord, NH

New Hampshire residents will announce that their state is the first in the nation organized to protect residents of its cities and towns by creating local Sanctuary Communities. Eight broad-based Sanctuary Communities have been formed to protect citizens and immigrants from the clutches of the growing army of federal ICE agents.

“The term ‘Sanctuary’ means people protecting one another,” said Judy, a 66 year-old grandmother from Lancaster. “Hard-working immigrants are being vilified. Women, children and older Americans across the country are being manhandled by masked agents. We have organized to help protect one another.”

New Hampshire Sanctuary Community participants will monitor ICE raids in local towns, videotape ICE attacks, and document them for the media and local law enforcement. The groups will also assist families and other victims of the brutal attacks taking place in communities across the nation under the guise of immigration enforcement.

Speakers will also discuss Sanctuary Communities now underway in other states as well.

News reports:

“79 year-old slammed to ground during ICE raid.” (CNN, 9/28/25)
“ICE officer relieved of duty after pushing woman to floor.” (NY Times, 9/26/25)
“U.S. citizens are ending up in Trump’s dragnet.” (NY Times, 9/30/25)
“Six year old child is arrested and handcuffed by ICE.” (Joyce Vance Substack, 10/14/25)

“Terrible things are happening. Helpless people are being dragged from their homes. Families are torn apart. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”  Diary of Anne Frank, 1952.

Other news…

• New York Times (October 16, 2025): Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents

• New York Times (October 17, 2025): What Trump’s War on Sanctuary Cities is Really About