"While the relationship between Abide in Love and the county is amiable, it may operate at a surface level. The group — and the detainees — have frustrations with the policies that led to the need for charitable works.
Max Tohline, an Abide in Love member, said Phelps County’s cooperation also doesn’t mitigate his concerns that ICE’s actions are immoral and unconstitutional. He said that he will work within the system to help detainees but that doing so is also a protest and an expression of patriotism.
'Abide in Love is a group that has an idea about how this country could become a better place based on the way we are living in it and the kindness that we show to our neighbors and the respect and the love that we show to our neighbors,' he said. 'They are the height of patriotism.'"
~ Jonathan Ahl, Brian Munoz
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