Vigil Against Violence.

• Position: Brief Article

Farmingville, New York

The whole family attends a candlelight vigil here to protest violence against immigrants. On September 17, Magdaleno Escamilla, twenty-eight, and Israel Perez, nineteen, both undocumented day laborers from Mexico, were lured to an abandoned warehouse in Farmingville with the prospect of a landscaping job. There, a group of white males beat them with a shovel and crowbar. The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights estimates that each...