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For two weeks in mid-June, she joined nine other artists dispatched by the Mennonite Central Committee to observe immigration policy as outrage smoldered over the practice of forcibly separating children from asylum seekers and news from back home revealed some of the children were detained in Topeka. Penner, a retired writing instructor and professor emeritus at Washburn University, said she was trying to find creative solutions or ideas about border territories but returned instead with a notebook full of "fits and starts."
President Trump's disgraceful effort to demonize immigrants - a constant feature of both his campaign and his presidency - is not working, according to a recent Pew Research Center. Nearly 7-in-10 Americans are very or somewhat sympathetic to immigrants who are here in the United States illegally--views little changed from 2014 despite all the misleading efforts to paint immigrants as violent criminals, drug dealers and gang members emanating from the White House.
Hundreds of people who fled gang violence in Central America are being deported by the United States back to those countries every week. It plunges them into danger.
Nearly 35,000 individuals were arrested crossing the southern US border illegally last month, according to a source familiar with the latest arrest figures. But though the Trump administration has made cracking down on illegal immigration a priority, including a policy that had at one point resulted in separating undocumented families, it is nearly impossible to attribute the decline to any specific policy.
Buena Ventura Martin-Godinez, center, holds her son Pedro, left, as she is reunited with her daughter Janne, right, at Miami International Airport, Sunday, July 1, 2018, in Miami. Martin crossed the border into the United States from Mexico in May with her son, fleeing violence in Guatemala.
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Corey Stewart's capture of Virginia's Republican nomination for U.S. Senate has prompted an identity crisis within the state GOP, with some so turned off, they are willing to vote for his Democratic opponent, Sen. Tim Kaine. Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, has celebrated guns and Confederate statues, lambasted illegal immigrants and associated with white nationalist Jason Kessler.
Hundreds of people gathered at the Capitol Square in Richmond to protest the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy toward undocumented immigrants, prompting the separation of thousands of children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to CBS 6. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who attended the rally, said the demonstrations are a way of showing the Trump administration that people do not approve of the family separation policy. "And bluntly, the president thought he could separate kids form their parents and the American public wouldn't care.
Ronald Vitiello is the new acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration said, as President Donald Trump looks to fine tune his "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal immigration. Vitiello is a career Border Patrol official who's been serving since April 2017 as acting deputy commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Rosalyn La Liberte has had her life turned upside down and her business threatened by the tweet and retweet of a falsely captioned photo showing her engaging in a "spirited discussion" with 14-year-old Joseph Luevanos at a Simi Valley City Council meeting on California's sanctuary policies for illegal aliens that falsely accused the woman of calling the boy a "dirty Mexican" and saying he would be among "the first deported". As a result she is getting threatening calls and messages and has lost at least one customer in the few days since she was "put on blast" by a teen activist and MSNBC's Joy Reid.
Thousands of protesters in Washington and locations across the country rallied Saturday to protest the Trump administration's policy of separating children from their families at the border. The largest event was held outside the White House. From Washington, VOA's Jill Craig has more.
Michael Kitzes speaks to the crowd during the “Families Belong Together” rally Saturday morning at Time Square in Downtown Vacaville. Michael Morris - The Reporter Concerned residents took to the streets of 750 American cities demanding that “Families Belong Together” less than two months after the Trump administration implemented its “zero tolerance” legislation against undocumented immigrants.
WASHINGTON Some of the most powerful and emotional messages at Saturday's coast-to-coast immigration rallies came from the smallest of people: children. Leah, 12, who did not give her last name, tearfully told the thousands gathered at Lafayette Square across from the White House that she was the daughter of undocumented immigrants and feared that at any moment her mom could be taken away.
Thousands gathered in front of the White House on Saturday to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies, which have separated children from parents at the U.S-Mexico border and sparked plans for military-run detention camps. Joined by protesters nationwide, people crowding downtown Washington waved signs and chanted "shame" as religious leaders and activists urged the administration to be more welcoming of foreigners and to reunite families.
Jaime Portillo works on his property along U.S. Highway 281 in El Calaboz. Portillo's property is divided by the border fence that runs along farmland in the Rio Grande Valley.
Crowds took to the streets of US cities Saturday to demand "Families Belong Together" nearly two months after the Trump administration implemented its "zero tolerance" policy toward undocumented immigrants, prompting the separation of thousands of children from their parents. The main rally was in Lafayette Square in Washington, but hundreds of marches, protests and rallies were underway across the country to call for the immediate reunification of migrant families and an end to family detentions and separations.
Thousands of people descended on cities from coast-to-coast Saturday in "Families Belong Together" rallies to protest the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that left more than 2,000 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. In the nation's capital, thousands poured into Lafayette Square, across from the White House, to chant "We care" and "No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist USA."
A female tourist is lucky to be alive after floating for 21 hours on the open sea on an inflatable sun bed. Olga Kuldo was fried alive by the hot sun after her lounger was swept out into the ocean by a strong current.
Buena Ventura Martin Godinez, a petite mother of two, carried her infant son from Mexico into the U.S in May, fleeing what she said were threats from violent local gangsters demanding money in their hometown in northwestern Guatemala. Her husband followed two weeks later with their 7-year-old daughter.
Saturday's protests will focus on the 'zero tolerance' policy that has resulted in the separation of more than 2,000 children from their parents. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to march in dozens of U.S. cities on Saturday to protest family separations carried out by the Trump administration, according to organizers.