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Interfaith Vigil, March 13, 2020: Compassion Has No Walls

Our March 2020 prayer vigil gathered on Zoom.

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June 14, San Francisco: Prayer Vigil – Compassion Has No Walls

Join us Friday June 14th for our monthly Prayer Vigil-Compassion Has No Walls, held outside the ICE building in downtown San Francisco. We gather every month on the second Friday, at ICE Headquarters to give voice to the suffering and abuses that so many working immigrant families are being subjected to.

This month the vigil will be led by Mount Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church, in collaboration with UU Fellowship of Redwood City and UU San Mateo. They will lead us in a ceremony to remember and to uplift the human dignity of so many families that are being separated. Join us as we demand an end to the targeting and incarceration, the deportations, the de-humanizing language and the hate. Come out and let us join our voices together as we elevate the California values of inclusion, welcoming, compassion, and freedom from incarceration.

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April 12, San Francisco: Vigil Outside ICE (KRON TV coverage)

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — More than 50 people rallied outside the United States Appraisers building Friday – the Northern California headquarters for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The group, organized by the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, is calling for the release of 28-year-old mother Aida Andrade Amaya.

“Aida is being deprived from her motherhood as her children are in their prime years,” said Edwin Carmona-Cruz, who’s part of the mother’s legal team.

Amaya’s team of attorney’s from Pangea Legal Services say she is an immigrant from El Salvador who fled her home country.

They claim she’s a survivor of domestic violence who defected out of fear for her life.

“If anything, she’s a victim of the system that believe, that does not believe her, and her statements,” Carmona-Cruz said.

Amaya’s legal team says she was detained by ICE outside her home a week before last Thanksgiving, based on a “red notice” issued by the international criminal police organization — or, interpol — alleging she had committed a theft in El Salvador.

Though, her supporters say she hasn’t been there in six years.

“She’s not a threat to society, nor is she a flight risk, all she wants is to be home, and with her children, and with her husband and with her family,” said Reverend Deborah Lee.

Her family includes a 4-year-old child and six-month old baby born prematurely.

The Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity rallies for detained immigrants every month outside ICE headquarters in San Francisco.

The organization says it’ll be back May 7 — for Amaya’s next hearing.

KPIX  TV clip

Telemundo 48 TV clip