The night before a planned protest over the Trump administration’s immigration policies that have led to more than 2,300 children being separated from their parents who tried to enter the country illegally, hundreds of people gathered at a South Bay church for a vigil and overnight stay.

The event was put together by the San Diego Organizing Project, which drew together more than two dozen ministers, priests, rabbis and other faith leaders from across the religious spectrum to call for a change in policy and support of immigrants, the impoverished and families.

They were expected to be joined by several busloads of supporters from around the state, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and the central valley later Friday night.

Several hundred people, clergy and laity alike, brought sleeping bags and were planning to spend the night sleeping at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in San Ysidro as a demonstration of solidarity with immigrant families.

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