Beto to Join ‘Lights for Liberty’ Vigil in New Hampshire to Protest Inhumane Conditions at U.S. Migrant Camps

500+ vigils scheduled to take place in all 50 states and globally to stand up to Trump’s cruel immigration policies. 
 

On Friday, Beto O’Rourke will join community members and activists at the ‘Lights for Liberty’ vigil in Peterborough, New Hampshire to protest the inhumane conditions faced by children, migrants and asylum seekers at detention camps across the United States. Over 500 Lights for Liberty vigils are scheduled to take place Friday in all 50 states and globally, and Beto is the first presidential candidate to announce participation in the vigils.

Beto has a long record of leadership standing up to the Trump Administration’s cruel immigration policies. 

• Beto recently visited three migrant detention camps－Homestead in Florida, Southwest Key in Houston, and Clint in El Paso－to demand an immediate end to the inhumane treatment of migrant children, families, and asylum seekers.
   
• Last week, Beto visited Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to highlight the chaos Donald Trump’s policies are causing on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, where he met with migrant families who had been turned away in their attempts to seek asylum in the United States.
   
• Last year, Beto organized a 2,000 person march in Tornillo, Texasto protest the detention of children who had been separated from their families.
   
• In 2015, Beto wrote and introduced bipartisan legislation to provide independent oversight of border security activities and increase accountability for the Department of Homeland Security.

As a fourth-generation resident of the border, Beto uniquely recognizes the urgency of fixing our broken immigration and naturalization system. In May, Beto released a plan that would implement the most sweeping rewrite of U.S. immigration law in a generation. Beto’s proposal would create a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented people in the United States, establish a first-of-its-kind community-based visa, end the cruel policies of the Trump administration, only require detention for those with criminal backgrounds who represent a danger to our communities, and more than double U.S. investment in Central America.