{"id":95210,"date":"2019-03-09T19:53:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T03:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sabido-living-in-a-very-challenging-time-in-mancos-sanctuary\/"},"modified":"2019-03-09T19:53:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T03:53:16","slug":"sabido-living-in-a-very-challenging-time-in-mancos-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sabido-living-in-a-very-challenging-time-in-mancos-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabido living \u2018in a very challenging time\u2019 in Mancos sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:54da9019-19d8-4eae-a0d0-461e2fad35b7 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HC8Sbfs6_9E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After 600 days in sanctuary at the Mancos United Methodist Church, Rosa Sabido said she needs an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Days before a vigil on Saturday, U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton denied Sabido\u2019s request for the lawmaker to sponsor a private bill to provide a path to permanent residency for the Mexican national who has lived and worked in Cortez for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not ready to give up,\u201d Sabido said in an interview. \u201cI am here to stay and fight until the end, until I exhaust every single opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement informed Sabido that her application for a one-year stay of removal was denied. She was ordered to leave the country or face deportation. Instead, she sought sanctuary at the United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n<p>With a denial from Tipton, Sabido said her only other option to living legally in the United States is to petition another legislator to sponsor a private bill. She said she may have to wait until the end of the year or until the next election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need some action on their behalf,\u201d Sabido said.<\/p>\n<p>The past 600 days have not been easy, she said. She lives in an enclosed space with uncertainty, she said. She isn\u2019t free, she can\u2019t take care of herself, she can\u2019t be a productive member of society, she left her \u201creal life\u201d behind, and now almost every day is the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am living in a very challenging time and just trying to get through,\u201d Sabido said to about 30 people at the United Methodist Church on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just through you that I am remaining strong,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Tipton\u2019s office in Durango did not respond to a phone call on Friday seeking comment on the denial. Mancos United Methodist Church Pastor Craig Paschal said a staffer informed him that Tipton would not sponsor a private bill but would continue to support her in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>Paschal said a private bill, which he described as an \u201cextreme long shot,\u201d is the only legal path forward for Sabido. He said U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is supportive, and Sabido and her supporters will continue to petition their legislators.<\/p>\n<p>During the vigil, held the day after International Women\u2019s Day, several Mancos residents spoke of inspiring stories from history of their personal lives while others expressed love for Sabido and frustration with the country\u2019s immigration policy and debate.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos resident Jaime Becktel said she grew up just north of the U.S.-Mexico border in a town interwoven with the Hispanic community. She said it\u2019s unfathomable to her why we\u2019re still dealing with \u201cthis stuff\u201d and is hard to believe that the system is this dysfunctional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am envisioning a resolution for you so that we can go for a walk in the mountains,\u201d Becktel said.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Walters, of Mancos, said he used to fish on the Rio Grande when he lived in Texas. If he couldn\u2019t catch any fish from the U.S. side, he said he would wade to the Mexico side. It didn\u2019t matter much to him, he said. The border is just a river.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we get people to let go of their fear and open their eyes and see that both sides of the river are the same?\u201d Walters said.<\/p>\n<p>Like Becktel, he said he often wishes he could bring Sabido with him when he sees the beauty of nature. But Sabido cannot leave her sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so sorry for what we collectively have allowed to happen,\u201d Walters said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:sdolan@the-journal.com\">sdolan@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>600 days at the United Methodist Church<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13,83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-95210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95210"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=95210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}