Vigil protesting conditions of immigration facilities held

Activists and community members July 12 banded together at the Hays County Courthouse to call for an end to inhumane conditions reported at several immigration detention facilities along the border.

Those who joined in on the vigil also prayed, protested and condemned controversial efforts by the U.S. government toward migrants in what some local leaders are calling concentration camps.  

Hosted by local immigration activists and criminal justice reform group Mano Amiga, the vigil was held in light of purported Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids this past weekend. In Texas, these raids were expected to occur in major cities across the state.