Candlelight Vigil for Immigrants, Neighbors, and Businesses

Please join us for a Candlelight Vigil on November 18th starting at Sloan Park in Bloomingdale. In the last month  there were 7 ICE abductions in Bloomingdale and Butler in which has had a devastating effect on the individuals involved, their families, the local immigrant community and the local latino business mostly located in downtown Butler.  As a customer of a coffee shop there, the proprietor told me that she had no business that day and only a handful of customers the following day.   In this community I hear about undocumented children afraid to walk home from school.  Business owners who have to pick up and drive home their employees, local Spanish speaking church service seeing a rapid decline in attendance, in fear that ICE will abduct them during a service.

It is time to show this community support. We decided to hold a Candlelight Vigil on November 18th that will go from a park in Bloomingdale to a park in downtown Butler where there are latino owned restaurants (7/10th of a mile).  After the vigil we will encourage attendees to have dinner in one of these restaurants. 

Please try to carpool with friends or neighbors or even coordinate carpooling from your community. 

For more information contact justice@muuf.org