Hundreds arrive on a caravan of buses from LA to protest 1070

PHOENIX - Hundreds of people from a California labor union have made their way to Phoenix in protest of Senate Bill 1070.

A caravan of 11 buses carrying 500 members of the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) left L.A. Dodgers' stadium at 4 a.m.

The buses arrived in Phoenix around 1:30 p.m. at St. Matthews Church at 20th Avenue and Van Buren Street.

The activists are expected to meet with working Arizonans facing the states new immigration law.

They will march to the Arizona state Capitol and end their journey with a vigil there before returning to L.A.

The delegation will return to Dodger Stadium by midnight.

Petra Falcon, director of Promise Arizona and one of the events Arizona hosts, said she helped arrange the visit to draw attention to the passage of SB 1070 and other similar legislation in the context of the struggles of all working people.

ABC15's Angie Holdsworth was on the bus and will be reporting from the march throughout the late afternoon.

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