“This summer our nation roared,” Rabbi Josh Whinston, of Temple Beth Emeth, an Ann Arbor synagogue, said to at least 50 people at the northside congregation. “We cried after hearing stories of children lost by our government. We have been led to believe that the policies are a thing of the past.”
As of Oct. 27, the Tornillo shelter still housed more than 1,600 children from ages 12 to 17, according to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, the El Paso Times reported last month. Immigration advocates told the newspaper the shelter was supposed to be temporary, but the center has been expanded three times since June.
Monday’s rally precedes the “Let Our Families Go” caravan trip that a group of faith leaders and lay people in Indiana, Michigan and other states plan to take to Tornillo, making stops in St. Louis, Tulsa and Dallas before traveling to the town on Thursday.
Named before the politicized migrant caravan controversy, Rabbi Dennis Sasso, of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, described it as “a pilgrimage, (being “on the move).”
