Legal Question in Constitutional Law in California
I live near the border patrol station processing the influx of undocumented/unaccompanied children. While everybody is fingerpointing, protesting and shrugging , it occurs to me that the church- in all its incarnations, is charged with providing "huanitarian and political SANCTUARY" in EXHANGE for paying no taxes ( including property taxes) . I didn't see any church buses so I'm assuming that these organizations have breached their part of the arrangement and need to either start providing UNREMUNERATED sanctuary for asylum seekers , dumped patients, skid row residents etc. etc or lose their tax exemptions.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Churches are not required to give the public anything in exchange for their tax exempt status. Most choose to offer a variety of social services, but they choose what type to offer.
Also, like many words, "sanctuary" means different things in different contexts. The kind of sanctuary a church might offer is very different from what sanctuary means in the context of immigration.
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