Protests Will Be Held Against Trump´s Immigration Policies

Washington – Hundreds of thousands of people will take to the streets of the United States today in a day of action against the policies of the Donald Trump administration, which involve the separation and detention of immigrant families.

According to the organizers of the initiative, gathered in the Families Belong Together coalition, some 750 events will be held this Saturday in all 50 states across the country in rejection of these and other immigration policies of the Republican administration.

Today’s mobilizations are expected to be the high point of a series of rallies which have taken place in recent weeks in places such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices.

In a statement released Friday, the groups signing up for the initiative announced the positive response to the national day of action continues to grow, and will be led by a massive demonstration in Washington DC.

According to the text released by the National Alliance of Domestic Workers, one of the groups participating in the mobilizations along with others such as MoveOn and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the main event will begin at 11:00 local time in front of the White House.

The protests on this day will focus on the’zero tolerance’ policy the administration implemented last May to criminally prosecute all those who arrive in the country illegally.

Such a rule led to the separation of some 2,500 children from their parents, and the anger caused by the situation at the national and international levels forced Trump to sign an executive order to end family divisions.

Last Tuesday, meanwhile, a federal court in California issued a preliminary injunction at the request of the ACLU ruling that all affected children must be reunited with their parents within 30 days (and children under the age of five within 14 days).

However, a plan to reunite the 2,000 children who remain separated has yet to materialize, and Trump’s order does not end the detention of immigrants for illegal entry into the country, but allows for the joint detention of children and adults.

In addition to focusing on that problem, the organizers said they will also reject the president’s measures aimed at limiting legal and illegal immigration, from his controversial travel ban to the lifting of deportation protections for many legal immigrants.