Local groups answer call to aid refugees coming to the U.S.

By Patricia Wei

Mosaic Staff Writer

Performers in colorful ethnic clothing parade at a World Refuge Day event at San Jose City Hall June 15 (Orlando Lucio/Mosaic)

Performers decked in ethnic clothing sang and danced at San Jose’s World Refugee Day celebration at the rotunda in San Jose City Hall. Behind the cheering audience, refugee advocates set up booths.

They were answering the call to support people arriving in the Bay Area to escape persecution, in the face of a federal government that has grown more hostile to them.

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