By: Marina Cimarusti

A Day at the Immigrants’ March on All 50 State Capitols in Salem, Oregon.

 

 

Activists gather in front of the Oregon State Capitol as they listen to speeches given by immigrant speakers. Across the United States immigrants organized marches on all state capitols in protest of the current president’s administration. Many hold up signs in protest of the Muslim ban and the border wall the administration has tried to implement.

 

As a pre-journalism student at the University of Oregon, Lauren Bruce, 18, is invested in storytelling. During the Immigrants’ March, Lauren listens to Yesica Navarro as she tells her story of immigrating to the United States as a child.

 

In an effort to promote inclusivity, the Immigrants’ March on all Fifty State Capitols event in Salem provided an ASL interpreter. The deaf community is often overlooked because of their invisible disability.

 

An engraved stone at the site of the Immigrants’ March details the feelings and rights that the for which the country, specifically Oregon, has for so many years claimed to stand for, and which have been so ironically ignored by the current presidential administration’s policies.

 

Children keep themselves busy while their family listens to speakers at the Immigrants’ March on the state capitol in Salem, Oregon while activists spoke about DACA. DACA is an immigration policy started in June 2012 that allows certain undocumented immigrants to the United States who entered the country as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.