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A progressive-leaning coalition of religious leaders in Washington, D.C., is demanding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stop using church parking lots when trying to make arrests, claiming it is "implicating" faith communities in what they described as a "federal takeover."

Nineteen leaders signed the letter organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA-DMV, the local chapter of an interfaith advocacy group, WUSA reported Saturday.

"We recognize that as these law enforcement entities use the properties of houses of worship, they are implicating those worshipping communities in the erosion of [D.C.] Home Rule," the letter stated, "[m]aking it look like those communities of faith agree with a federal takeover, and in accord with the racial profiling an

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