Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Vigil organizers aim to keep immigrant families together

More cities are holding vigils to support families being torn apart by immigration policies. - - Donna Poisl

TANYA DROBNESS, STAR-LEDGER STAFF

In churches and parks, outside courthouses and municipal buildings, hundreds of people yesterday called for an end to federal immigration policies that advocates say tear apart families and punish the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants who are deported or detained for long periods of time.

So-called "children's vigils" were held through the afternoon and evening in nine New Jersey communities, from Morristown, Newark and Jersey City in the north to Bridgeton, Cumberland County, in the south. Advocates staged a 10th vigil in the Bergen County community of Dumont on Monday.
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