On Sunday evening, a group gathered in Fort Morgan as a call to action to protect access to asylum and provide a pathway to citizenship for families.
The event was part of a national week of action, organized by the American Friends Service Committee . The communications director for the Colorado office, Jennifer Piper, said the organization works to protect the rights of immigrants and educate the public about the immigration system.
Piper said AFSC has around 50 members in Morgan County. She said all of the members lived in Central America before coming to Colorado. Piper said the event on Sunday was planned since early October, and just happened to coincide with migrants arriving in Denver. In part, she said the Fort Morgan group was also standing in solidarity with the individuals who have recently passed through Denver.Magdalena Simon attended the vigil on Sunday evening, and said she was forced to leave her home country of Guatemala.
Simon said when her family first came to the United States, they entered asylum proceedings and were attending all of their check-ins, but her husband was detained for four months during one of her pregnancies. Simon said she still does not know why her husband was detained.
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