A mother of three from El Salvador, who has been living in a Bethesda church for the past three months, lost her legal appeal to have her deportation case reopened and is now asking politicians to help her.
Rosa Gutierrez Lopez, the first undocumented immigrant to seek public sanctuary in the Washington, D.C., area, was taken in by Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church after she refused to board a flight home on Dec. 10.
