Thousands take to the streets across the US for mass organized protest against family separations at the border – as Trump defends the ‘brave men and women of ICE’ for doing a ‘fantastic job’
More than 600 protests are taking place across the US and internationally in protest of the separations
The policy has been scrapped but there are still thousands of displaced migrant children at the border
On Saturday, as the first protesters took to city streets, Trump defended ICE agents for their work
He said the agency had rescued entire US towns from the ‘grasp’ of gang MS-13 and that they were ‘fantastic’
The president insisted that ICE would ‘never’ be dismantled despite growing criticism from Democrats
Among stars who joined the protests were Susan Sarandon, Lin Manuel Miranda and Alicia Keys
Democrat darling Joe Kennedy III spoke at a rally in Boston which drew enormous crowds
By JENNIFER SMITH
DAILYMAIL.COM
30 June 2018
Thousands of protesters across the country have taken to the streets for coordinated protests against family separations at the border.
The marches are planned in cities across the US including New York, Washington DC and Atlanta. There are also hundreds happening for the same cause in countries around the world.
Organizers have branded the events Families Belong Together. Their hope is to put pressure on the government to speed up the reunion of migrant children who have been separated from their families as they tried to enter the US illegally.
More than 2,300 remain in detention centers on the border and they do not know when they will be reunited with their relatives.
At the event in Washington DC, stars including Alicia Keys and Lin Manuel Miranda gave passionate speeches imploring the crowds to vote and ‘not back down’.
‘Our democracy is at stake. Our humanity is at stake. We are out here to save the soul of our nation. We need all the children reunited to their parents.
‘We demand to end the zero humanity policy. We need to save the supreme court. We need to vote. Because when we vote, we win,’ Keys said, before leading the crowd in a chant of: ‘We’re not backing down.’
As the marches gathered pace on Saturday morning, Trump took to Twitter to praise ICE, whose agents are who physically separated the families.
In a pair of tweets at around 7am, the president said he had ‘watched’ ICE ‘liberate’ entire towns from gangs and said they were responsible for ‘eradicating the worst criminal elements’.
‘To the great and brave men and women of ICE, do not worry or lose your spirit. You are doing a fantastic job of keeping us safe by eradicating the worst criminal elements.
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