Hundreds of immigrants marched through the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to ask President Barack Obama to halt deportations immediately separated immigrant families in the country.
The march, which attracted many people from several cities in this state and South Carolina, began in Veterans Park and continued along two miles of the Central Street, the heart of the Hispanic community in this city , reaching the Marshall Park.
"Today we march for our fathers, sons, nephews, workers, because we are tired of so much suffering and will continue to demand that President Obama merely deported," he told the crowd Elver Barrios, a member of the Latin American Coalition (LAC), organizer of the underway.
Among the protesters was the Mexican Celsa Hernandez, who arrived accompanied by her three children from the city of Monroe, south of Charlotte, to support the movement, as he has lived in "the flesh" the suffering of family separation.
"My father and two brothers were deported five years ago in Charlotte, having no driver's license.'s Not fair that innocent people with" Hernandez told Efe said.
At least 13,000 Hispanic immigrants have been placed in deportation proceedings in Charlotte, through the 287g program operating since 2006 in Mecklenburg County Jail and that identifies undocumented immigrants among the detainees in this prison.
According to activists, the immigration measure has generated suffering and distress in migrant families in the area as Leisha Acosta, a mother who has fought for years against the deportation of her husband.
"This fight is just beginning, we can not let beat us, we must fight to keep our families together," said Acosta protesters.
March of 'dreamers'
Students also were present at the protest, via a bus with more than 50 "dreamers" of the Latino Student Association of Columbia College in South Carolina, who made the journey from the capital of the neighboring state to join the underway.
Oscar Chacon of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities came even from Chicago (Illinois) to urge the community to continue on "war footing."
More than two million undocumented immigrants have been deported since President Obama took office in 2009, to an average of 1,000 immigrants per day, which has earned him the title "deportador boss."
Ignacia Rodriguez of the National Immigration Law Center, directly asked the president to deport rather than two million people offers an administrative immigration relief to all undocumented immigrants in the country.
Today's march was called LAC, the largest Hispanic organization in North Carolina, and she was joined by groups Families United, United 4 the Dream, the Immigration Reform Committee of South Carolina, among others.
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