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Mass Wedding for Undocumented at the Border

12:48 H | Topics: Immigration - Lifestyle - Mexico

Over 600 undocumented immigrant couples -- some of the planning to enter the U.S. and others returning from the U.S. -- were married in a mass ceremony at the border between Tijuana, Baja California and San Diego on Valentine's Day.

As a live band blasted out sugary Mexican love songs in the border city of Tijuana, a short walk from the busy San Ysidro crossing into California, a judge simultaneously married a crowd of couples whose ages ranged from 16 to 65.

More than three-quarters were migrants returning from, or trying to get into, the United States.

"Isn't she gorgeous? I love her!" said Inocencio Felix of his new wife Angelica Perez, 36, dressed in a flouncy white wedding gown. Perez was deported by U.S. immigration officials two weeks ago from the state of Oregon, where the couple met.

Via / Reuters

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