Hefting signs, giving prayers and reciting poems, about 100 volunteers from Utah Jewish community groups gathered for a vigil outside Utah’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office Saturday, with one message: “Close the camps.”
“It was illuminating to be there,” said Eileen Hallet Stone, Utah section president of the National Council of Jewish Women, one of the groups organizing the protest in West Valley City. “People got out of their on lives for a moment to think about the lives of others, to think about how they would feel to be taken out of their homes.”
Stone was on a list of speakers — including Reps.