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A vigil for refugee children and their families was held Wednesday night, July 9, at Murrieta City Hall, where advocates called for proper treatment of immigrants crossing the border.

MURRIETA >> The contrast was stark. Just two miles from where angry protesters on both sides of the immigration issue have been verbally battling it out, dozens gathered for an unusual peaceful event during a prayer vigil on a grassy area outside of City Hall on Wednesday evening.

Tim Sheridan, the Democratic nominee in the race for California's 42nd Congressional District, criticized 20-year incumbent Congressman Ken Calvert's statement on the refugee transfer to the U.S. Border Patrol Station in Murrieta, California.

Sergio Garcia of San Diego and Osvaldo Delgado of El Paso, Texas argue during a immigration demonstration outside the Border Patrol facility on Friday in Murrieta.

A top border official told Congress Wednesday that more than 57,000 unaccompanied children have tried to cross the southern U.S. border in the current fiscal year, a jump of 5,000 from the number cited by officials just a few weeks ago.

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"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," President Barack Obama's former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, once infamously stated.

Furious protesters in Murrieta, California have made it clear that they oppose the federal government's apparent desire to send busloads of illegal immigrants from South Texas to their area.

Protesters stand in the road blocking a bus carrying 140 immigrants on the way to be processed at the Murrieta border patrol station on Tuesday, July 1, 2014.

The unwillingness of the House of Representatives to discuss immigration reform - let alone actually pass a bill - has left the debate in the hands of a crowd of screaming hotheads in Murrieta, Calif., who show no inclination to let facts get in the way of their paranoia about brown-skinned hordes subverting the America they revere.

Immigrant rights activist Mary Estrada speaks with anti-immigration activists during a protest outside of the U.S. Border Patrol Murrieta Station on July 7, 2014 in Murrieta, California Tensions remain high near the United States' border with Mexico, where an influx of illegal immigrants in recent months, mostly children, has divided the community.

The racially charged and conspiratorial rhetoric protesters spewed at child migrants on their way to temporary housing in Murrieta, California, closely mirrored some of conservative media's favorite xenophobic talking points.

It's been said so often in the past few days that it's nearly a cliche. Nonetheless, there is some truth in labeling Murrieta the current center of the nation's immigration debate.

Protesters gathered again Monday in Murrieta to stand off buses loaded with migrants slated for processing at a federal facility.

The well-oiled machinery of citizenship-destroying government was in the process of making a regularly-scheduled delivery of illegal aliens to the town of Murrieta, California last week when a group of unhappy local residents turned up, and engaged in what our friends on the Left used to describe as the essence of patriotism: they staged a protest.

The " Tequila Party ," a Latino group formed in opposition to the Tea Party, wrote to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director James Comey on Monday to request that the Tea Party and several officials be investigated for their role in protesting and blocking the transfer of illegal aliens captured in Texas to Murrieta, California.

Five far left counter-protesters were arrested Friday in Murrieta, California as protesters and open borders supporters gathered outside a Southern California Border Patrol facility.

President Barack Obama is trying to minimize the public's opposition to his policy of accepting hundreds of thousands of poor Central Americans into the United States.

A surge in children illegally crossing the southwestern U.S. border in recent months may soon have an unexpected impact on refugees living in Kids crossing border may affect Tenn.

Residents of Murrieta, CA - Ground Zero for protests against federal illegal alien policy - have told Breitbart News that federal officers in riot gear will accompany another busload of illegal aliens who the government want to process at the town's immigration facility.