Calling for “much-needed reform,” borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. is hosting a prayer vigil and rally today in collaboration with clergy, community leaders, and elected officials to demand that the Trump Administration immediately return immigrant children being held in the Bronx to their parents.

The event will be co-sponsored by the Bronx Clergy Task Force and will take place on the steps of The Bronx County Building, 851 Grand Concourse (at the corner of East 161st Street), at noon. According to Diaz, his office has been contact with Catholic Guardian Services and Lutheran Social Services of New York, two organizations contracted with the federal government that provides services for children who have been separated from their parents at the southern border.

In a statement, he said, “Both of these organizations had been previously contracted by the federal government to provide services for unaccompanied minors, and in recent days have been forced to take on a new population of children who have been separated from their parents at the border.” The organizations are not disclosing the locations where the children are being held.

Diaz assured Bronx residents that his office will keep in touch with the two organizations as they continue to provide medical, counseling, and legal services for the children while they send them to school.

“President Trump’s cruelty is a stain on this nation,“ he said as he offered his rally and prayer vigil as consolation and a temporary solution.