Avery Trufelman

This story was reported, written, and produced by Zoe Kurland, edited by Liza Yeager, Jackson Roach, Omar Etman, and Annie Rosenthal.

Sound design and additional production by Liza Yeager.

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As a Presbyterian pastor, Zach Wilson doesn't have to wear all that priest stuff.

Doesn't have to wear the cassock or the chasuble or the stole.

Nothing's required.

And then how often would you wear the collar?

Really?

And by this, Pastor Zach means when Immigration and Customs Enforcement took over his city.

You're wearing your collar right now.

When did you order this collar?

On January 23rd, Pastor Zach and at least 400 other clergy members, decked out in their clerical attire, went to protest ICE at the airport.

It was freezing.

But Pastor Zach and his hundreds of colleagues held up pictures of the Minnesotans who had been abducted, and they sang protest songs and hymns for as long as they could.

Was this your first time getting arrested?

Yes.

That's so wild.