Immigration rights groups rally against deportation during Day of the Dead event in downtown Ann Arbor
mlive.com, November 3, 2011
http://www.annarbor.com/news/immigratio ... bor-woman/

Community members rallied against the deportation of immigrants Thursday with a speeches and a march to the Federal Building in downtown Ann Arbor.
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[quote]Community members rallied against the deportation of immigrants Thursday with a speeches and a march to the Federal Building in downtown Ann Arbor.

Some participants painted their faces as skeletons in recognition of El Dia de Los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, during the rally organized by Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights and the University of Michigan’s Social Work Alliance for Immigrant Rights group.

The rally highlighted the struggle of Lourdes Salazar Bautista — an Ann Arbor woman and mother of three children — as part of an ongoing deportation problem in Washtenaw County. Bautista, who came to the U.S. from Mexico in 1997, is facing deportation Dec. 27 after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a month in July 2010. He husband was deported last year.

Laura Sanders, one of the co-founders of WICIR, said Bautista’s supporters are hoping to stop Lourdes’ deportation by calling attention to her case and asking people to speak out. Organizers circulated petitions against her deportation at the rally and handed out flyers asking participants to contact the Department of Homeland Security and ICE on Bautista’s behalf.

“We hope that with enough attention we can stop this,â€