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Surrounded by faith leaders and supporters, one dozen children wrapped in emergency thermal blankets occupied the rotunda of the Russell Senate Building in Washington, D.C., this week to support other children who need help.
“People are watching this,” said Lorenzo Morales-Eguren, a seventh grader from Virginia, “and I hope you people are thinking, these children need to be free. They can't be in cages.”
Those children are the thousands of migrant children who have been ripped from the arms of parents at the U.S./Mexico border due to the administration’s barbaric “zero tolerance” policy, and who will continue to remain torn from parents because the administration has no plan in place to reunite them.
From the building rotunda, others from the action, organized by LA RED (Liberation, Action, Respect, Equity, Dignity) and Faith in Protest, prayed and chanted "shame, shame, shame!” Their targets: the administration and complicit Congressional Republicans.
"The thought of any children in cages breaks my heart," Nan Collie told CNN. She brought her 9-year-old granddaughter, who was a part of the action. "It was really powerful for us to be here today together to make that statement."
It’s also important to note that this crisis is in no way over. The sham executive order signed by Donald Trump does nothing to end the “zero tolerance” policy, and families could be locked up indefinitely while others will continue to be separated. Keep fighting back, keep protesting, and keep calling on your members of Congress at 202-225-3121 and demand they support the “Keep Families Together Act” now.
Can you give $5 to help keep immigrant families together—or bring them back together after separation?