Día de los Muertos Procession to Remember Victims of El Paso Shooting, Deaths Under Immigration Custody
PRESS ADVISORY
Día de los Muertos Procession to Remember Victims of El Paso Shooting, Deaths Under Immigration Custody
WHO: Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR)
WHAT: Día de los Muertos Procession to remember victims of El Paso shooting, and those who died under immigration custody
WHEN: TOMORROW Saturday November 2nd at 5:30 PM
WHERE: Gathering will start at 5:30 PM at Ponder Park (7500 W H Burges Dr.) The procession will end at the site of the Memorial at Walmart.
The Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) will hold a Día de los Muertos
procession to honor the victims of the three evils that are destroying our
state and our country: weapons of war, hateful rhetoric, and white supremacy. The
gathering will start at Ponder Park and continue to the site of the Memorial at
Walmart.
Many of the tragedies are a result of policies gone haywire during the Trump
administration. Like the death of those who have died under the custody of
immigration authorities, and the hateful rhetoric that reached the most tragic
expression on Aug. 3 when a self-confessed white supremacist gunman opened fire
in an El Paso Walmart killing 22 people.
This year, during the “Day of the Death” we are standing up to hate and armed violence. Border communities
are strong and safe because of its people and its values and
are a place of opportunity and hope.
Día de los Muertos is a
traditional Mexican and Central American celebration that honors the dead by supporting their spiritual journey. In Mexican
culture, death is viewed as a natural part of the human cycle and this day is
not seen as a day of sadness but as a day of remembrance.
*VISUALS: 22 black coffins to remember the victims of El Paso Shooting and 7 white coffins to remember the children that died under immigration custody.
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The Border Network for Human Rights, founded in 1998, is one of the leading human rights advocacy and immigration reform organizations in the U.S. BNHR has over 7,000 members in West Texas and Southern New Mexico.
