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Immigration protest heads to D.C.


Activists to seek policy changes
By Leslie Berestein
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 3, 2006

Local border activists embarked yesterday on a cross-country caravan to Washington, D.C., in hopes of persuading lawmakers to abandon controversial border-enforcement legislation and to protest a political climate they believe has grown increasingly hostile toward immigrants.

Gathering at the border fence just east of the San Ysidro port of entry, caravan participants and several supporters held a brief news conference before setting off.

“We are going to go to Washington, and we are going to say no on 4437,â€