Press Conference Illinois residents will go to ROME to ask POPE to intervene when he meets with President OBAMA to stop DEPORTATIONS of undocumented WHEN: TODAY Wednesday 3/19 WHERE: SWISS AIRLINES TERMINAL CHICAGO OHARE AIRPORT TIME : 5 pm ( CHICAGO, IL ) Latin CHICAGO , ELGIN , WAUKEGAN JOLIET and traveling tomorrow 5pm from OHare airport to the Vatican for an audience with Pope Francisco and will ask him to intercede for undocumented immigrants in the U.S during his meeting with President Barack Obama . The current administration deports 1,000 undocumented immigrants daily . The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE , for its acronym in English ) figures are reaching nearly 2 million deportations - the most in history, of which 7 out of 10 have NO criminal record , according to data from the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS) At the international level , this will not be the first time in history a POPEs door is knocked asking for him to intervene and stop deportations : * In 1922-1939 Pope PIUS XI and Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) interceded for the millions of Jews in Germany under Adolf Hitler. *In 2010 the Pope was asked to intervene on behalf of the 1,000 Roma immigrants that France deported to Bulgaria The Illinois delegation , includes Catholic priests : * José Luis Torres the Paroco Pedraza - of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Joliet * Frather Marco Mercado- CERRITO of Tepeyac church in Des Plaines. And several Illinois residents including : Eduardo Pina- trip organizer and Adam Nunez, owner of AZTECA GOLD in Joliet, Salomon Carmona promoter and owner - channel radio and television, Margaret Carrasco Waukegan and Official Spokesperson ,. Jesus Sanchez member of Church of Saint Pio ,. Jose Gloria- photograph, Rosalba Garcia- Borrego proprietaria d Supermarket in Bollingbrook among others. In addition to asking the Pope Francisco to intercede for undocumented immigrants in the United Stateswhen he meets with President Barack Obama to stop deportations, Mr. Eduardo Piña added that the delegations mission is to deliver a petition with multiple signatures and will also ask the Holy Father to bless an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe as the queen of immigrants and Mr. Adan Nunez clarified that the intent of the group is spiritual and absolutely NOT a protest or march as others have done in the past
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:29:03 +0000
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