Trump Facing Nationwide Protest over Immigration Policy
Liberal activists, parents and protesters motivated by accounts of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border plan to rally in hundreds of cities nationwide on Saturday 30 June.
Liberal activists, parents and protesters motivated by accounts of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border plan to rally in hundreds of cities nationwide on Saturday 30 June.
More than 600 marches could draw hundreds of thousands of people across the country, from immigrant-friendly cities like Los Angeles and New York City to conservative Appalachia and Wyoming under the banner Families Belong Together.
According to AP, Tyler Houlton, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, welcomed interest in the immigration system and said only Congress has the power to change the law.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley didn’t respond to AP’s request for comment.
This comes as over 500 people, including at least one member of Congress, were arrested and escorted from the Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday after staging a sit-in during demonstration against the Trump administration’s approach to migrants.
“We’re standing up for the real American values,” a protester said on Twitter.
