Yesterday, advocates with United Farm Workers, Church World Service, and others called on Congress to pass the Dream Act during events in Washington, DC and California celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
The Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated as an icon of protection and refuge, and the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe was declared as time of unity with Dreamers by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
In Washington, the Feast was marked by a rally on Capitol Hill, while in Delano, California, advocates held a procession and mass honoring the accomplishments, hopes, fears and needs of all families who have come to the US seeking a better life.
The UFW Foundation also handed out 122 red roses to community members, each representing the life of an undocumented young person who is losing his or her DACA protection every day.
View some of the photos and tweets from the celebrations below:
#UFW joins in procession & mass marking Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in solidarity with immigrants. Participants say, we pray for a Clean Dream Act. Clean #DreamActNow #CleanDreanAct @UFWF pic.twitter.com/aYm13Ass4p
— United Farm Workers (@UFWupdates) December 13, 2017
Pray for a #CleanDreamAct pic.twitter.com/YZ7DircrkY
— #DREAMActNow (@UFWF) December 13, 2017
#UFW joins in procession & mass marking Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in solidarity with immigrants. Participants say, we pray for a Clean Dream Act. Clean #DreamActNow #CleanDreanAct @UFWF pic.twitter.com/ohbbOVKdC1
— United Farm Workers (@UFWupdates) December 13, 2017
#UFW joins in procession & mass marking Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in solidarity with immigrants. Participants say, we pray for a Clean Dream Act. Clean #DreamActNow #CleanDreanAct @UFWF pic.twitter.com/qvSibCLDL4
— United Farm Workers (@UFWupdates) December 13, 2017
UFW Foundation voter engagement leaders in #Tulare praying for a #CleanDreamAct #nextgen @RepDavidValadao sign on to the Discharge Petition Now! pic.twitter.com/qwS22sIpZp
— #DREAMActNow (@UFWF) December 12, 2017
Today we marched to St. Peter’s Catholic Church in a procession honoring Our Lady of #Guadalupe praying for the passage of the #DreamActNow pic.twitter.com/b7cqbic3PM
— #DREAMActNow (@UFWF) December 12, 2017
Labor & civil rights leaders #CesarChavez & .@DoloresHuerta always used the Virgen de #Guadalupe banner at the front of the .@UFWupdates historic pilgrimages to draw attention to the plight of #farmworkers. Today, we fight for a #DreamActNow! 🌹❤️✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/HlOS0sTvWS
— #DREAMActNow (@UFWF) December 13, 2017
Drawing from the “miracle of roses🌹” theme from our Lady of #Guadalupe story faith leaders, #DREAMers & community members did a pilgrimage to #CapitolHill carrying 122 roses representing 122 #DREAMers loosing their DACA status each day! #DreamActNow! 🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/HAOKkHUaXM
— #DREAMActNow (@UFWF) December 13, 2017
Reverend @StanleyRea leads the assembled crowd now in a prayer of thanks for the hands of all immigrant families, especially the farm workers for the food the provide us. “And may the decision come soon for a clean #DreamAct in this very season.” #GreaterAs1 pic.twitter.com/DWIenacKHH
— CWS (@CWS_global) December 12, 2017
A sign about #Dreamers from the Virgin of Guadalupe procession to the US Capitol: “they are American by choice, struggle, sacrifice, and love.” #DreamActNow #GreaterAs1 pic.twitter.com/KOvKBThqu0
— CWS (@CWS_global) December 12, 2017
Happening now: procession to the US Capitol calling for a clean #DreamActNow in honor of the feast day for the virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of young people. pic.twitter.com/fhjc1q665R
— CWS (@CWS_global) December 12, 2017
