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Thursday, September 18,1986/The Battalion/Fage 3 State and Local M church holds discussion harboring illegal refugees UiM Ftili'ti'v By Janet Goode Reporter as sanctuary workers typically mages of tears and bloodshed :hey speak of their efforts to boi refugees. uc t was the case Sunday night at ■ United Methodist Church, several members of the verjient discussed their partici- in harboring Latin-American ^jgdes fleeing political persecu- aorters say the church sanct- ovement is a revival of a tra- Dt|dating back to Greco-Roman and is aimed at saving the lives ie endangered by civil strife in it^l America. Sanctuary workers tnday they act as conductors ew underground railroad” in Ich they secretly carry illegal im- ts across the border and hide i churches. usin sanctuary worker Rob {swell said, “Sanctuary is just one Besponse . . . but churches are ing lots of responses as they al- jsdo when people suffer.” iustin-area workers stressed the jpnce of the 300 nationwide '[diary churches by showing a vi deo and telling stories of oppressed immigrant families. “Thev’ve shown us their scars,” Cogswell said. “There’s no question that these people are being tortu red.” However, the sanctuary movement is not without opposition. John A. Abriel, deputy district di rector of the Immigration and Natu ralization Service, said in a phone in terview Wednesday that the movement is a fraud. “(The sanctuary workers) are dis seminating grossly exaggerated in formation about the horror stories they (refugees) tell,” he said. “The violence (in Central America) just isn’t hot and heavy anymore.” Abriel said sanctuary is a small group of people who are masters of publicity. “It’s just a civil disobedience act that plays on citizens’ humanitaria- nism,” he said. Ellen Ritter, chairman of the com mittee that sponsored the Sunday night program, said although sanct uary workers are of good con science, “there’s no doubt they are breaking the law.” But Cogswell said churches have a natural responsibility to aid the refu gees regardless of what the law says. “It started with the Gospel,” he said. “Jesus was very clear in what he said to do about (the refugees). Jesus never said to put them in detention camps. And that’s what (our govern ment) is doing.” Several Texas A&M students and church members said they feel sanct uary is morally right, but that the lo cal community would never support such activities. Graduate student Joan Penzenstadler said the community is full of “closet liberals.” But A&M students John Alexan der and Scott Bietendorf said they don’t think College Station residents would support the sanctuary movement because the community is apathetic. “They don’t care because the situ ation is so far removed from them,” Bietendorf said. here would repercussions Cogswell said people feel differently if the r hit closer to home. “You could imagine the impact here if one-fourth of the people in College Station no longer had homes to live in,” he said. “Breaking the law is not the issue. The issue is that these refugees need help.” But Cogswell, like sanctuary co workers Walter Long and Janis Heine, doesn’t think he is breaking the law. He said he believes the U.S. government is breaking its own laws. Long said “the right of no return” is supposed to be upheld by the United States since it’s stated in the U.N. Refugees Convention and Pro tocol that America will not deport refugees whose lives are endangered in their native lands. But Abriel said these allegations are “so absurd it’s pathetic” since no one agrees with every law. He added that no alien is returned with an ap plication for asylum pending. “It’s just not true that people are killed when they go back to their countries,” he said. “The sanctuary people have never shown us one documented case of someone get ting killed by the government after deportation.” Cogswell said that since refugees . “miraculously” become economic immigrants once they cross the Rio Grande, they are denied refugee sta tus and their rights. Senate may defer retirement fund payments t pical Amenor. ® ii games on. CURTIN (AP) — The Senate approved a bill •od to workoiP-Bsday that would defer until February the popular? Bing of $860.5 million in state payments to , ul , K . iTex ts employee and teacher retirement sys- I °^IP ro P osa * was approved 19-6. but needs a 1° *” ev WOr * t "Bmate vote to go to the House. It would be- ousands of doltiBeffective only if the current special legis- lays. So docoa( ipiession enacts a tax bill. V‘B sponsor John Traeger, D-Seguin, de- .. Bl the five-month delay in payments as a ‘’i tanK ' l ' i,: ' o-risk venture” that would not affect current lectois. audio t Bient benefits. and numen»!B The deferment of retirement payments to February is one of several measures designed to keep state checks from bouncing later this year as the Legislature tries to cope with a projected budget deficit of $2.8 billion. Under the bill, state payments from February through August 1987 would be prorated for a 12-month period. At the end of that period, the state also would pay a minimum of 8 percent in terest on what the payments would have earned in interest had they not been deferred. “There’s no net loss in any way,” Traeger said. “There would be no effect on retirement benefits or for employees thinking about going on retire ment.” In response to a question, Traeger said there would have been no need to borrow from the re tirement funds if the special legislative session that convened Aug. 6 had passed a tax bill. In other action Wednesday, the Senate also ap proved a bill to clarify authority of the General Land Office to audit royalties paid for oil and gas leases on state lands and to hold hearings on any deficiences uncovered. So far, audits have shownthat more than $20 million in delinquent royalties is owed to the state. By Mike Sullivan Stuff Writer The restaurants listed below were inspected Sept. 9 through Tuesday by the Brazos County Health Department. The infor mation is based on food service establishment reports. SCORED BE 1 WEEN 90 AND 95: • Grandy’s at 1002 E. Harvey Road in College Station was in spected by Mike Lester. Score — 90. Two points were subtracted from the report because some raw chicken was soaking in stand ing water. Another two-point vio lation was cited in the report be cause soap and paper towels were needed at some stations. Six one- point violations were cited in the report for the following: an ice scoop was left in an ice machine; some floors needed drains; some bulk containers needed to be cov ered and labeled; a hot water fau cet was leaking; a dumpster area needed a general cleaning; a men’s room needed repairing. SCORED BETWEEN 85 AND 90: • Aggieland Inn at 1502 S. Texas Ave. in College Station was inspected by David Pickens. Score — 89. Two points were deducted from the report because hot and cold plumbing weren’t working at a hand sink. Another two-point violation was cited in the report because some canned goods were stored near a ceiling leak in a storage room, there was some food on a storage room floor and some soft drink containers needed to be removed from a chemical storage area. Seven one- point deductions were made from the report for the following: a grease build-up on a dish washer; some tile covering needed repairing; some ceiling tiles needed repairing; some utensils needed to be stored in an organized manner; a back-si- phonage prevention system needed to be installed at a rear door; some trash needed to be re moved from the premises; an ice dispensing utensil was being stored improperly. SCORED BETWEEN 80 AND 85: •International House of Pan cakes at 103 S. College in College See Report, page 10 David Jefferson, a registered sanitarian at the department, says res taurants with scores of 95 or above generally have excellent operations and facilities. Jefferson says restaurants with scores in the 70s or low 80s usually have serious violations on the health report. Scores can be misleading, Jefferson says, because restaurants can achieve the same score by having several major violations or an abun dance of minor violations. He says the major violations might close the restaurant down while some minor violations can be corrected during the inspection. Jefferson says the department might close a restaurant if: the score is below 60, the personnel has infectious diseases, the restaurant lacks adequate refrigeration, a sewage backup exists in the building, the res taurant has a complete lack of sanitization for the food equipment. Point deductions, or violations, on the report range from one point (minor violation) to five points (major violation). The department in spects each restaurant about every six months. Sometimes a follow-up inspection must be made, usually within 10 days. 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