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DJ Yoon and Rudy Lopez join in a prayer at the Episcopal Church Center, 75 South 200 East, as Yoon and Lopez will drive the Fast for Families Across America tour bus for immigration reform on Saturday, March 8, 2014.
Matt Gade, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY Nearly a dozen local religious leaders joined hands Saturday to bless a group of advocates traveling around the country to increase support for comprehensive immigration reform.
Their cry is for the families that are separated by deportation and for people who die in the desert trying to enter the country illegally.
"Our country has been founded by immigrants, has a history of welcoming and integrating immigrants and we will continue to be great as we acknowledge our heritage and be a nation whose shores are a welcome beacon for those on the move," said Salt Lake City Catholic Bishop John Wester.
Wester welcomed riders of the Fast for Families bus one of two that is stopping in more than 75 congressional districts across the country before joining in Washington, D.C. on April 9.
The trek began after a group of activists abstained from food for 22 days on the National Mall, beginning in November, "to show that immigration reform is too important not to keep front and center in front of Congress," said Rudy Lopez, one of the activists who fasted publicly and continues his quest with the bus tour.
On Monday, the group will visit with Rep. Chris Stewart's office staff, to urge the congressman to take leadership on the issue of immigration.
Jos Bonilla, of Salt Lake City, became a legalized citizen of the United States in October, after 34 years of living in the country and paying taxes. He said the process was long, but it shouldn't be.
"I think every human being is coming here to work and to do good and live in society," he said. "In my opinion, everybody has the right to live, everybody has the right to work and everybody has the right to do good."
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With immigration reform stalled in Congress, young activists are stepping up protests to dramatize the toll of deportation on families. But critics question whether the actual numbers fit the claims.
The nine-to-five crowd had thinned out by the time a mostly Latino crowd arrived outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center here to mark the end of a 15-day hunger strike this week.
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Weakened by the lack of food, strike participants sat in wheelchairs, surrounded by friends and family, under a sidewalk canopy. They had fasted to call attention to the Obama administration's deportations and the detention of spouses, children, and siblings, many of whom remain behind bars for being in the country illegally. On Monday, the hungry group savored a bowl of vegetable soup and promised continued protests.
"This doesn't stop here, we will keep at it," says Anselma Lpez, a Guatemala native who was briefly hospitalized for health complications after several days of not eating.
With hope fading over Congress's capacity to tackle immigration reform anytime soon a bipartisan reform bill passed the Senate last June but has stalled in the GOP-controlled House pro-immigrant tactics to pressure the Obama administration to act are escalating.
Protesters want the president to use his executive powers to end deportations, until Congress can overhaul immigration laws and establish a path to legal status for some 11 million people now in the country illegally.
Critics call the fasts and vigils "protest theater" that aims to stir up emotion but doesn't fit how federal agents are enforcing the nation's immigration laws on the ground.
"The kind of enforcement that the activist groups are upset about is interior enforcement, where people living here get caught and get removed," says Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, which promotes tighter immigration enforcement. "But that kind of enforcement has dropped 40 percent in the last two years."
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With immigration reform stalled in Congress, young activists are stepping up protests to dramatize the toll of deportation on families. But critics question whether the actual numbers fit the claims.
The nine-to-five crowd had thinned out by the time a mostly Latino crowd arrived outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center here to mark the end of a 15-day hunger strike this week.
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Weakened by the lack of food, strike participants sat in wheelchairs, surrounded by friends and family, under a sidewalk canopy. They had fasted to call attention to the Obama administration's deportations and the detention of spouses, children, and siblings, many of whom remain behind bars for being in the country illegally. On Monday, the hungry group savored a bowl of vegetable soup and promised continued protests.
"This doesn't stop here, we will keep at it," says Anselma Lpez, a Guatemala native who was briefly hospitalized for health complications after several days of not eating.
With hope fading over Congress's capacity to tackle immigration reform anytime soon a bipartisan reform bill passed the Senate last June but has stalled in the GOP-controlled House pro-immigrant tactics to pressure the Obama administration to act are escalating.
Protesters want the president to use his executive powers to end deportations, until Congress can overhaul immigration laws and establish a path to legal status for some 11 million people now in the country illegally.
Critics call the fasts and vigils "protest theater" that aims to stir up emotion but doesn't fit how federal agents are enforcing the nation's immigration laws on the ground.
"The kind of enforcement that the activist groups are upset about is interior enforcement, where people living here get caught and get removed," says Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, which promotes tighter immigration enforcement. "But that kind of enforcement has dropped 40 percent in the last two years."
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