A preschool that leases space from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder is shutting down at the end of the month after the church congregation voted to become a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants facing deportation.

“It put us out of business,” said Active Boulder Kids owner Kristen Argow Heaton.

About 90 percent of the congregation that attended a church meeting on the matter last month voted to move forward with plans to outfit a portion of the building to provide living quarters for an immigrant taking sanctuary.

Argow Heaton said that parents notified the church ahead of the vote that they had safety concerns, and those concerns were not addressed, prompting more than half of the 22 children who attend the preschool to be withdrawn.

“They were not concerned about the person going into sanctuary,” she said. “They were concerned about people against the idea of sanctuary doing something to the location. It was more outside concern.”

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