The caravan began in Sacramento with a meeting with lawmakers working to make California a sanctuary state. It made a stop at a detention center in Richmond to serenade incarcerated immigrants, then stood outside the sheriff’s offices in Fresno and Bakersfield, demanding that they cease collaboration with federal immigration agents. Dozens of activists from various groups are part of this Caravan Against Fear, which travels around to denounce the climate of terror in which immigrant communities live and demand human rights protections. The caravan will cross through the border states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas and return to Los Angeles in time for the May Day marches.
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