Community members donned rain coats and plastic ponchos, and some carried umbrellas as they gathered in front of Springfield City Hall for a rally and vigil to support immigrants Thursday evening, Dec. 18.
Kriscia Rivas, 29, who said she has lived in Springfield her whole life, started off the rally with a speech before handing the microphone to others.
“Immigrants are not only your surgeons, your pharmacists, your lawyers, your secretaries, your engineers, your farmworkers, your baristas, your educators, your nurses,” said Rivas, who is the daughter of Latino immigrants. “Immigrants are humans with rights, and those rights are being taken away right now, and that needs to change.”…