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September 24, 2015

Daughter of Undocumented Parents Delivers Letter to Pope Francis 
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Meanwhile, a video of a little girl delivering a letter to Pope Francis
during his papal procession down Constitution Avenue in Washington,
D.C., has gone viral. Five-year-old Sophie Cruz is a U.S.-born citizen
whose parents are undocumented immigrants from Mexico. She slipped past
the barricades Wednesday and delivered a written plea to the pope asking
him to help keep her family together. She later read the letter to The
Guardian.

Sophie Cruz: "I am an American citizen with Mexican roots. I live in Los
Angeles, California, in the heart of agriculture. My parents are
immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico. Pope Francis, I want to tell you that my
heart is sad, and I would like to ask you to speak with the president
and the Congress in legalizing my parents, because every day I am scared
that one day they will take them away from me."

We'll have more on Pope Francis' historic six-day visit after headlines
with the granddaughter of Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day and
Maryknoll publisher Robert Ellsberg.

 

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