On foot and carrying flags, they crossed the Mason-Dixon line — the old American border between slavery and freedom – walking to Washington, D.C., over the course of three weeks in May. They canoed across the broad, grand Susquehanna River. They walked more than 300 miles from New York to deliver a peace protest to Congress and the people they met along the way: “We affirm and defend everlasting human rights across all borders.”

They are a group of Friends, also known as Quakers. The walkers ranged from their 20s to seniors in their 70s and 80s. They left from the Brooklyn Friends Meetinghouse. Staying in Philadelphia and Baltimore meetinghouses as well as homes, the walkers aimed to spread awareness of President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rising arrests and mass

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