International Women's Day celebration being held in Madera County

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A section enactment is hosting a solemnisation of International Women's Day successful Madera County this week.

On Friday evening, music, Mexican food, informational booths, and respective speakers of divers backgrounds volition invited the assemblage for a solemnisation astatine Courthouse Park.

"Through theatre, done poetry, done music, done storytelling and almighty speeches," explained Estela Galvan, a coordinator with PAN Valley Institute.

"We besides person our keynote talker who is going to beryllium sharing what it means to beryllium an migrant woman."

The PAN Valley Institute has been readying the lawsuit for respective months.

The enactment focuses connected civic engagement among the migrant community.

"More than ever, present we request to enactment each different and the communities of color, marginalized communities. Now is the time," said Galvan.

Galvan says accrued deportation efforts person created fearfulness among galore successful those communities.

She points to a raid by Border Patrol successful Kern County successful aboriginal January - adjacent earlier Inauguration Day.

This week, the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary is reporting ICE has accrued arrests by much than 600 percent nether President Trump's leadership.

The medication says anyone who is successful the state illegally is taxable to removal.

But Valley Republican and seat of a cardinal migration subcommittee, Congressman Tom McClintock precocious spoke with Action News astir the Border Czar's goals.

"I deliberation Tom Homan has made it precise wide that the apical precedence is those who person committed different crimes successful summation to illegally entering our country," McClintock told Action News.

"Then next, the 1.4 cardinal amerciable migrants who've had their time successful tribunal person been ordered deported to permission by a tribunal and person refused to bash so."

Community organizers privation Friday's lawsuit successful Madera to supply clarity and comfort.

Silvia Rojas says she is hopeful radical volition halt by and not beryllium afraid.

She volition beryllium cooking authentic Mexican nutrient and is excited to consciousness the unity among those who attend.

"We are hopeful successful that unity. Yes, it's scary but astatine the aforesaid time, we person to spot however tin we beryllium a portion of the solution," said Galvan.

The lawsuit is happening from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. connected Friday, March 6, astatine the Madera County Courthouse Park.

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