O’Rourke to focus on treatment of immigrant detainees in weekend visit to NH

Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke will focus on immigration issues in his upcoming presidential campaign visit to the Granite State.On Friday, O’Rourke will participate in a “Lights for Liberty” vigil in Peterborough to focus on the treatment immigrant children and asylum seekers are receiving in detention facilities. The Peterborough event, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Putnam Park, will be one of more than 500 vigils being organized by activists nationwide.O’Rourke has visited three detention facilities housing migrant children in the past two weeks, including Homestead in Florida, Southwest Key in Houston and Clint in O’Rourke’s home city of El Paso, Texas. He also met last weekend with migrant families who had been turned away at the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.On Saturday at 9:45 a.m., O’Rourke will hold a town hall event hosted by state Sen. Shannon Chandley at 3 High Meadow Lane in Amherst.At 12 p.m., O’Rourke will headline the Manchester Democrats Potluck Picnic at Oak Park in Manchester.O’Rourke will hold a town hall event at the Andover Barn-Highland Lake Inn, 32 Maple St., at 3:15 p.m. and a town hall in Meredith, 24 Oak Island Road, at 5:45 p.m.On Sunday at 2:15 p.m., O’Rourke will hold an immigration-focused town hall at the Nashua Unitarian Universalist Church, 58 Lowell St. The event will follow a private meeting with faith leaders, the campaign said. O’Rourke will wrap up his campaign swing with a town hall in Brentwood, at 31 Peabody Dr., at 4:45 p.m.

Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke will focus on immigration issues in his upcoming presidential campaign visit to the Granite State.

On Friday, O’Rourke will participate in a “Lights for Liberty” vigil in Peterborough to focus on the treatment immigrant children and asylum seekers are receiving in detention facilities. The Peterborough event, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Putnam Park, will be one of more than 500 vigils being organized by activists nationwide.


O’Rourke has visited three detention facilities housing migrant children in the past two weeks, including Homestead in Florida, Southwest Key in Houston and Clint in O’Rourke’s home city of El Paso, Texas. He also met last weekend with migrant families who had been turned away at the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

On Saturday at 9:45 a.m., O’Rourke will hold a town hall event hosted by state Sen. Shannon Chandley at 3 High Meadow Lane in Amherst.

At 12 p.m., O’Rourke will headline the Manchester Democrats Potluck Picnic at Oak Park in Manchester.



O’Rourke will hold a town hall event at the Andover Barn-Highland Lake Inn, 32 Maple St., at 3:15 p.m. and a town hall in Meredith, 24 Oak Island Road, at 5:45 p.m.

On Sunday at 2:15 p.m., O’Rourke will hold an immigration-focused town hall at the Nashua Unitarian Universalist Church, 58 Lowell St. The event will follow a private meeting with faith leaders, the campaign said.

O’Rourke will wrap up his campaign swing with a town hall in Brentwood, at 31 Peabody Dr., at 4:45 p.m.

