Quaker 300 miles March to protest against Trump's immigration retail | US immigration

A group of quäkern marched more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington DC to demonstrate against the approach of the Trump government against immigrants.

The march extends a long tradition of Quaker activism. In the past, Quäker were involved in peaceful protests to end wars and slavery and to support women's voting rights in accordance with their commitment to justice and peace. In recent times, the Querker sued the federal government at the beginning of this year because of the ability to fight immigration in worship.

The marching organizers say that their protest wants to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are targeted by Donald Trump's second presidency.

“It feels really discouraging to be so critical and big and in a way existential threats,” said Jess Hobbs Pifer, a 25-year-old quäker and March organizer, who said she felt a connection to the long history of faith.

“I just have to get one foot in front of the other places to move something better, something that saw the quäkern ahead of us for this country and what people saw for the American experiment, the American dream,” she said.

Her goal was to go south from Flushing Quaker Meeting House-in New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania-Zum US Capitol, a copy of the flower ring test, a 17th century document that demanded for freedom of religion and a prohibition of worshiping quacher.

Quaker say that it remains relevant in 2025 to “maintain the key principle that everyone is welcome”.

“We have really seen a common thread between the way the administration flies against the norms and ideals of constitutional law and equality before the law,” said Max Goodman, 28, a Quäerker who joined the march.

“Even if they do not explicitly violate rules, they really deal with the spirit of pluralism, tolerance and respect for human dignity, which underpins our founding documents as Americans and also appeared in this document that is really important in the history of New York Quaker.”

The Quäker, whose formal name is the religious society of friends, dates from England from the 17th century.

The Christian group was founded by George Fox, an Englishman who complained about the Anglican emphasis on the ceremony. In the 1640s he said he had heard a voice that prompted him to build a personal relationship with Christ, which was described as an inner light.

Fox taught that the inner light emancipates a person of compliance with creeds, church authority or ritual forms.

Fox gets involved in court for the object of the established church with a judge who mocked him as a “quäker” with regard to his excitement about religious affairs.

According to the core beliefs of faith in non -violence and justice, Querkers have shown for the abolition of slavery in favor of the right to vote against both world wars and the role of the United States in the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, said Ross Brubeck, 38, one of the Quaker March organizers.

They also joined protests against the world trade organization in Seattle and the protests of the Black Lives Matter after the murder of George Floyd 2020.

“Quäker have had a central role in the United States since its foundation,” said Brubeck, who marched on a path in New Jersey in New Jersey, whereby companions swiveled a wrong American flag that is supposed to serve as a signal of need.

One of the most famous Quäker was William Penn, who founded Pennsylvania on religious tolerance after the focus of faith. The group became influential in cities like Philadelphia.

But members of the group were also despised because they refused to join the wars due to their belief in pacifism and non -violence. Some were persecuted and even killed because they tried to spread their religious beliefs.

At the beginning of this year, five Quäuer communities submitted a lawsuit that questioned a move of Trump administration in order to give immigration agents more scope for the arrest in houses of worship.

Trump insisted that immigrants are an existential threat to the United States. Immigration to the legal and illegal US USA increased during Joe Biden's presidency and Trump attacked this influx before November won.

Since his return to the White House in January, Trump has launched a campaign to enforce immigration, which has pushed the limits of the executive power and collided with federal judges, who are trying to contain it.

“Immigrants are those who experience the most acute persecution in the United States,” said Brubeck. “The message to Trump is that the power is not his.”