Thread: Mass Border Wedding on Valentine’s Day

Mass Border Wedding on Valentine’s Day
Posted By Allan Wall On 19 February 2008

In case you didn’t hear about this, there was a mass wedding on the Mexican side of the border on St. Valentine’s Day. Here’s what was reported:

Nearly 600 Mexican couples tied the knot in a mass Valentine’s Day wedding by the U.S. border on Thursday, many of them undocumented migrants who met while working illegally in the United States.

So many of them were Mexicans who didn’t even know each other until they met in the U.S.

As a live band blasted out sugary Mexican love songs in the border city of Tijuana, a short walk from the busy San Ysidro crossing into California, a judge simultaneously married a crowd of couples whose ages ranged from 16 to 65.

This was a civil wedding, the only kind recognized by the Mexican government. (Church weddings are not officially recognized by the Mexican government).
And, get this,

More than three-quarters were migrants returning from, or trying to get into, the United States.

Then the article zeroes in on the couple Inocencia and Angelica (you can see their photo with the article):
[quote]Isn’t she gorgeous? I love her!â€

DUPLICATE

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-104030-wedding.html

related earlier article

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-104030.html