Suburban pastor's pilgrimage to New York will highlight plight of immigrants

The Rev. Gary Graf will walk more than 800 miles from the south suburbs of Chicago to New York City’s Ellis Island to speak out against the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.

“What is now happening to immigrant families in the United States, and especially to children, is an assault on those fundamental values of people of all faiths. Children taken from parents, little ones weeping in fear, families torn apart again and again. We are left with the same truth. There must be a better way,” Graf said Monday morning.

“To tear families apart is to wound the very heart of God. We must announce these actions for what they are: immoral and un-American policies and enforcement actions that divide families and fracture our nation.”

Graf, 67, is the head pastor of Our Lady of the He