The Reverend Kaji Dousa, senior pastor Park Avenue Christian Church in Manhattan, claims that the Federal government illegally persecuted her for what she confessed her faith to refugees and immigrants along the U.S. border and Mexico.
The Reverend Kaji Dousa. Source: twitter
According to the pastor, attempts of the administration to trump to intimidate, to harass and follow her, violated her rights under the First amendment and the Law on the restoration of religious freedom.
«In this country the government cannot dictate to people who can pray for the pastor, to whom she can preach or who they can ask for forgiveness from God,» said Dosa in the complaint, filed in the district court.
At the beginning of this year and in 2018, the pastor went to Tijuana to pray with immigrants and to perform various religious services. In January 2019, Dosa returned to the US, but it was delayed at the border, agents of the various Federal agencies, including the Department of homeland security, Immigration and customs enforcement and customs and border control. During the interrogation she was trying to figure out whether it encourages a false asylum-seekers and participating in illegal activities.
«These officers followed the pastor Dosa because she prayed with immigrants and for them, and also due to the fact that it gave publicity to the devastation caused by forced activity ICE falls on immigrants and their families,» reads the complaint.
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According to Dosha, her name was included in a secret database along with information about other activists, journalists and individuals dealing with immigrants. The database is called «Operation Secure Line».
Dosha dealing with the rights of immigrants for over 20 years. Before moving to new York she worked in the Church in La Mesa (California) — about 20 miles from the border. In addition to his work in the Christian Church Park Avenue Christian Church the pastor is the co-chair of New Sanctuary Coalition is a religious organization dedicated to protecting immigrant communities.
