Students and residents came together on Court Square Friday in support of a border crossing scheduled for Saturday and for local immigrants in the Valley.
Virginia residents and immigrant justice activists are currently in Mexico, getting ready to cross the desert into Arizona without carrying government issued identification. The Virginia-based activist network, The People United, hopes to convey that enforcement at the border, and anti-immigrant policy in Virginia, doesn't make us safer.
Barbie Spitz says, "There's nothing really that separates them from us except the color of their skin and if that isn't racism to grant someone citizenship and rights simply because of the color of their skin or from where they're born then I don't know what is."
The crossing Saturday will formally end with demonstrations in Washington D.C., organized by the Immigrant Justice Organization, Mexicans Without Borders.