Faith leaders come together to defend immigrant communities amid federal raids

More than a dozen of a number of beliefs, on Wednesday night, he marched to the steps of the federal building in the city center of Los Angeles, called to end the federal migration raids they said that he had shredded families and caused racial profiles.

At the beginning of the regiment in Plaza Olvera, Downey Memorial Christian Church’s senior priest Rev. Tanya Lopez explained how federal agents watched as a founder in the parking lot of the church of the church last week. Despite the attempts to intervene, the man was detained and he doesn’t know where he is now.

“All our faith traditions teach us to love our neighbor, to suffer less than we have found the world, and creates trauma that cannot be taken back throughout these generations,” Lopez said.

While the Trump administration carried out the oath of making the immigrants in the country without documenting the deportation of mass deportation, federal execution actions were carried out in Southern California this week. Initially, President Trump focused his discourse to those who commit violent crimes. However, shortly after taking office, the administration made it clear that any person in the country thought that he was guilty without being authorized.

The raids covering bus stops, home depot parking lots, swap meetings, farms and factories made many immigrants to hide and in some cases to be unique.

Religious leaders marching on Wednesday called for raids by saying that immigrants are an integral part of the Los Angeles community and that they deserve to be treated with respect and dignity regardless of the status of documents.

They walked their messages from Plaza Olvera to the federal building in the city center, and wearing colorful clothes that reflected the Jewish, Sikh, Muslim and Catholic traditions and combined with songs and prayer in Spanish and English.

They called on God, the Creator, the Holy, and prayed for healing and justice. They prayed for hundreds of people who were detained and deported and the families they left behind.

Father Brendan Busse from Dolores Mission Church is looking at the crowd in the city center of Los Angeles on Wednesday.

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In the crowd, Talia Guppy held purple flowers on her chest while singing. Guppy, members of the Church of the Bishop of the St. Stephen learned that Hollywood was detained during the raid of the ambiance clothing factory in the city center, and since then he has moved his services online to host people who were afraid to be attempted from their homes.

“We are here for them,” he said. “We will protect your hope and protect the faith until they get justice for them.”

At the end of the regiment, the hikers approached the steps of the federal building. The officers of the Department of Internal Security poured out of the building and the clergy maintained the entrance as the leaders put the steps in line. Inside, behind the semireflekted gates, the US marine pies were ready.

The leaders called for peace and bloomed the steps of tribute to those detained.

Valarie Kaur, the leader of the magic, said, uz We come with flowers and we will continue to come with flowers as long as our loved ones are held in cages, ”he said. Stoacı turned his attention to the officers at the standing gates and questioned how they wanted to be remembered by history. Then he put flowers from his feet.

Valarie Kaur, the magic leader, leaves a flower in the feet of the expected federal officers in the federal building in the city center of Los Angeles.

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In the crowd, protesters gave signs with images of the Virgin Mary and Mexican flags. The clergy asked them to be ready to defend their neighbors in the coming days.

Father Brendan Busse, a Jesuite priest at the Dolores Mission Church in Heights, said he felt the effect of the raids in the church. Sadık members are no longer in line. Others call on asking if it is safe to come to the church. Fear is felt.

“We must be a safe area for people not only in our church, but also for people in the neighborhood,” he said. “I can’t guarantee that we are a completely safe area for anyone, but at least because I feel that we are in a difficult moment, we are standing together.”

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