Illegal immigrants urged to make emergency plans

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Some advocates are asking immigrant families, many of which include at least one U.S. citizen, to make emergency plans for rent, bail and lawyers, The Times’ Paloma Esquivel writes. Others are asking them to write certified letters designating caretakers for their U.S.-born children. Read the report here.

This video report visits an ‘immigrant rights’ workshop at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church near USC, during which immigrant organizer Antonio Bernabe urged illegal immigrant parents to set aside money to be used in case they are picked up in an immigration raid.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City