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Posted on May 15, 2007
Bay City News Wire

RICHMOND: Mayor Joins Clergy Members in Washington Demanding an End to ICE Raids

RICHMOND (BCN)

Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin will be joining faith leaders from across the country in Washington on Wednesday to demand that the Department of Homeland Security stop conducting mass immigration raids, according to Adam Kruggel, executive director of a faith-based organization working to put an end to the raids.

Members of the Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization, a group of 25 religious organizations in the county working to change immigration policies in the United States, have joined up with members of the Peninsula Interfaith Action, People Acting in Community Together and PICO California.

On Wednesday the group will deliver a national statement against the raids signed by more than 350 clergy members from 37 states to members of Congress, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security, according to Kruggel.

"We object to federal government action that has broken up families, left children abandoned, and traumatized whole communities," a statement from PICO National Network reads, according to Kruggel.

The group will also be asking Congress to investigate the impact of the raids on families and communities.