On Sunday (7/6) at the website of CBS8 Television (San Diego), Shannon Handy reports, “In the midst of an immigration crisis, musicians from both sides of the US-Mexico border came together for an event celebrating children. Members of the San Diego Symphony and the Baja California Orchestra performed together on both sides of the border at Friendship Park Sunday. The music-without-borders event dedicated to showing love for children comes amid a national crisis over the surge of Central American children entering the U.S. illegally. Divided by just a fence, two orchestras played simultaneously along the California-Mexico border Sunday. … ‘This is the first time ever we have the San Diego Symphony and the Baja California Orchestra here at Friendship Park,’ said Enrique Morones … [founder of] the humanitarian organization Border Angels [which] organized the … event. As bystanders listened to music, some came here to communicate with people on the other side.” The article notes that under current U.S. immigration law, “unaccompanied children from Central America … must be brought into custody, taken to the Health and Human Services Department and then placed with a relative or guardian while awaiting a deportation hearing.”
Posted July 8, 2014
