Mexican Immigration Activists' 'Caravan of Hope' Arrives in New York City Spencer Platt - Getty
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Father Alejandro Solalinde, (L) is a Catholic priest who is on a "Caravan of Hope" across the United States to draw attention to the to the plight of Central American migrants traveling there through Mexico, and who are often deported back to Mexico into dangerous conditions. He received the 2012 National Human Rights Award from Mexico’s President Enrique Nieto for his work. He is the founder and director of Hermanos en el Camino (Brothers in the Road), a shelter for migrants in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Area clergy, family members of kidnapped and disappeared immigrants and others marched around New York City's Federal Plaza to protest against the situation for millions of Central and South American migrants along the US-Mexico border today.

Arriving in New York City after traveling for 20 days across the country, members of the "Brotherhood of the Road" shelter in Oaxaca, Mexico and the The New Sanctuary Movement held a news conference in front of Federal Plaza where they discussed the humanitarian crisis along the border for the estimated 70,000 people who have disappeared in their attempt to reach the US-Mexico border.

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