Linc Up partners with Movimiento Cosecha to declare themselves a sanctuary space for undocumented immigrants
Earlier today, Linc Up, Movimiento Cosecha GR and GR Rapid Response to ICE hosted a Press Conference to announce that Linc Up would become a sanctuary space for undocumented immigrants, since their organization serves the undocumented community through their services.
The Executive Director of Linc Up stated:
This event reflects LINC UP’s ongoing alignment with Cosecha’s vital work on the ground to protect immigrant communities and uplift collective care. As part of this effort, LINC UP is also affirming its role as a sanctuary space—a place where immigrant families are supported, seen, and safe.
Gema Lowe, a volunteer organizer with Movimiento Cosecha said:
We are grateful that the first official Sanctuary Space in Grand Rapids begins here with LINC UP Nonprofit Housing Corporation. But our hope doesn’t stop here — we believe this is just the beginning. We call on other organizations, churches, mosques, synagogues, healthcare clinics, and community centers to follow this lead and declare themselves Sanctuary Spaces. Together, we can confront the immediate harm caused by police and ICE violence, while building the collective power needed to create lasting, systemic change for our immigrant community. Our safety, dignity, and humanity cannot wait.
A spokesperson with GR Rapid Response to ICE applauded Linc Up’s decision to become a sanctuary space and, “invited other non-profits and local institutions to do the same, since sanctuary declarations sends a message to the affected community that they are valued and supported, plus it sends a message to those in power that we will not be silent or live in fear, especially when ICE arrests, detains and disappears people from this community.”
After the Press Conference I was able to speak with someone from Linc Up and Movimiento Cosecha who provided brief comments on the importance of this announcement.
For organizations that want to join Linc Up in declaring their space a sanctuary space contact Movimiento Cosecha GR movimientocosechagr@gmail.com or GR Rapid Response to ICE info@grrapidresponsetoice.org.
Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy 
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