PEORIA, Ariz.– Immigration activists are spending 24 hours outside the front gates of Arizona Congressman Trent Franks’ home.
A couple dozen showed up Friday night, and say they’ll stay through the night and day Saturday, holding continuous prayer vigils.
The group is hoping to appeal to Franks’ deep religious convictions. They say they want to make the ‘moral case’ for immigration reform and a path to citizenship.
“We know he’s a man of faith,” Pedro Lopez told 3TV. “And that’s one thing we have in common with the congressman.”
Franks greeted the group, and spent time listening to their concerns and stories of family separation due to immigration issues and deportation. Keep Reading
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Not to forget the paperwork paid by our taxes given to them at the Mexican embassies on how to crash our welfare system. Now they can drive right through the borders and get asylum if they say the drug cartel is chasing them and get a free hotel while the enter the system.