Prayers and Activism for Citizenship

In the middle of a Sunday afternoon event called "A Prayer for Citizenship" in the gymnasium of St. Monica's Catholic Church, 16 year-old Cynthia Torres approaches the microphone and faces an overflow crowd of 600 people. Congresswoman Susan Brooks sits to Torres' right. Torres begins to speak, explaining that she grew up in Indianapolis and is a student at George Washington High School. Then she pauses and takes a deep breath. "When I was 12, my mother was deported," she says.