California IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Marchers Protest Immigration Tide

More than 200 people, many with candles in hand, marched through the streets of downtown San Diego Sunday in a symbolic rebuff of what many view as a rising anti-immigrant sentiment throughout Southern California. The candlelight walk was also designed as a counterpoint to the ongoing Light Up the Border protests, in which U.S. motorists here shine their headlights toward Mexico as an act of protest against illegal immigration. Meanwhile, in the Calexico-Mexicali border area, demonstrators planned a separate candlelight march Sunday in honor of victims of violence along the U.S.-Mexico frontier.