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    With Speeches And Bright Dresses, Quinceañeras Protest Texas Sanctuary City Ban

    With bright skirts flouncing, 15 young women ascended the steps of the Texas State Capitol in Austin. "We will not meet this law on its hateful level," declared 17-year-old Magdalena Juarez.
    by Laurel Wamsley Jul 19, 2017 1 minute
    Jennifer Ramirez and 14 other young women wearing quinceañera dresses protested on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Wednesday. They protested SB4, an immigration enforcement law.

    The colorful scene melded two time-honored Texas traditions: political protest and the quinceañera.

    With skirts flouncing, 15 young women ascended the steps of the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Wednesday morning to a traditional Mexican birthday song played in

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