NEW YORK (AP) – The Latest on nationwide protests over a Trump administration immigration policy (all times local): 6:45 p.m. Thousands have marched peacefully…
NEW YORK (AP) – The Latest on nationwide protests over a Trump administration immigration policy (all times local):
6:45 p.m.
Thousands have marched peacefully in downtown Atlanta as part of a nationwide protest of a U. S. immigration policy that has separated children from their parents.
An estimated 4,000 people braved the heat Saturday to walk roughly a half-mile from the Atlanta City Detention Center to a federal building.
U. S. Rep. John Lewis and others denounced the Trump administration for separating more than 2,000 children from their parents as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration at the Mexican border.
The Atlanta march was one of hundreds nationwide urging the Trump administration to reunite families.
Although President Donald Trump has signed an order ending the policy, children remain in detention centers and apart from their families.
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6:45 p.m.
Thousands of people protested the Trump administration’s family separations in Portland, Oregon, and across the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington.
U. S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, blasted President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and asked the crowd what score the president would get for his zero tolerance policy. The crowd shouted back, “Zero!”
The policy of prosecuting people crossing the U. S.-Mexico border illegally led officials to separate children from their parents. Hundreds of rallies nationwide opposed the now-abandoned policy.
In Seattle, several thousand protesters rallied outside the SeaTac Federal Detention Center that holds immigration detainees. More than 25 rallies were planned across Washington state on Saturday.
The group Patriot Prayer is planning what they call a “freedom rally” in Portland later Saturday.
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5:40 p.m.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco to oppose the Trump administration’s family separations at the border.
Drums beat and horns played Saturday as marchers held flags and signs, some saying “Deport Trump” and “I Really Care, Do You?”
Barry Hooper of San Francisco said he attended the protest with his wife and two daughters to “let the president know that this is not acceptable.”
His 7-year-old daughter Liliana clutched a sign she made saying, “Stop the separation.”
Marchers arrived at City Hall shortly before noon and gathered to listen to politicians and activists denounce the now-abandoned policy.
Across the San Francisco Bay, hundreds of protesters turned up at a similar rally in Berkeley.
Police in both cities said the rallies appeared peaceful and reported no arrests.
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5:30 p.m.
Thousands of people spanning at least six downtown blocks marched in Minneapolis to protest U. S. immigration policies.
Some protesters set up a makeshift cage Saturday and others carried signs saying, “We as a country are in a moral crisis, not a border crisis,” ”Moms Against Baby Prisons” and “Abolish ICE.”
Ken Kirwin carried a sign showing Vladimir Putin wearing a hat with President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” and another reading, “Make America SANE again keep families together.”
The 77-year-old told the Star Tribune that it’s the first demonstration he’s marched in since protesting the war in Iraq during George W. Bush’s presidency.
Light-rail service downtown was temporarily shut down because of demonstrations blocking tracks.
The rally is among hundreds nationwide urging the Trump administration to reunite families separated at the U. S.-Mexico border.
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This item has been corrected after the newspaper updated its story to show Kirwin didn’t wear a hat with President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, but instead carried a sign showing Vladimir Putin wearing the hat.
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5:30 p.m.
Dallas police say five people have been arrested outside a U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building during a protest of federal immigration policies.
News station KXAS-TV reports that dozens of people were protesting outside the ICE building Saturday. Police say it began peacefully before protesters began to block lanes of a service road. Police blocked off one lane for the demonstrators, but they then moved into the other lanes.
A police supervisor said five people were arrested when they refused police orders to move.
Dallas police confirmed the arrests to The Associated Press but declined to provide details on the charges the five are facing.
The rally is among hundreds nationwide urging the Trump administration to reunite families separated at the U. S.-Mexico border.
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5 p.m.
Thousands of protesters have gathered in downtown Los Angeles to protest an immigration policy from President Donald Trump’s administration.
Singer John Legend serenaded the crowd Saturday, and Democratic politicians who have clashed with Trump spoke against separating families at the U. S.-Mexico border.
U. S. Rep. Maxine Waters called for impeachment, while Sen. Kamala Harris pointed to how migrant children taken from their parents will suffer lifelong trauma.
Protesters, many dressed in white and some holding babies, carried signs reading, “Asylum not abuse” and “No human is illegal.”
Robin Jackson of Los Angeles noted the “absolute cruelty” of the administration. She says she was heartbroken when her parents worked second shifts at night and can’t imagine what it’s like for the migrant children who don’t know when their parents are coming back.
The rally is among hundreds across the U. S.
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5 p.m.
A rally outside City Hall in Portland, Maine, grew so large that police had to shut down part of a street as about 2,000 people chanted, cheered and prayed.
People held signs saying, “Make America Kind Again,” ”Love Has No Borders” and “Diversity is Strength.”
Robert O’Brien, of Peaks Island, Maine, held aloft an upside-down U. S. flag, the symbol of distress, to show his disapproval for Trump’s immigration policies, including separation of families at the U. S.-Mexico border.
He called it “cruel and unusual punishment.”
The protest is among hundreds across the U. S. urging the Trump administration to reunite families separated at the U. S.-Mexico border.
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3:40 p.m.
Crowds faced down a heat index of as high as 110 degrees in downtown Chicago to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policy, surrounding a stage in Daley Plaza and shouting “Si se puede!” (“Yes, you can!”).
Margo Chavez-Easley, a 39-year-old Chicago resident who emigrated to the U. S. from Guatemala when she was 9, carried a sign that read, “What lengths would you go for your children?”
Chavez-Easley told the Chicago Tribune that as an immigrant and an American, she feels a mix of pride and shame.
Democratic U. S. Sen. Dick Durbin was in attendance, saying it was “a place I had to be.”
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3:40 p.m.
Hundreds of people gathered in Detroit and 22 other Michigan cities to add their voices to nationwide protests over the detention of immigrant families.
Detroit police estimated that more than 250 people marched Saturday through the city’s downtown before holding a rally at Hart Plaza in sweltering, 95-degree heat.
The Detroit News reports that Democratic U. S. Rep. Sander Levin told the gathering that the detention of young immigrant children and the Trump administration’s other immigration policies “are a danger to American society.”
Saturday’s rally was among hundreds across the U. S. urging the Trump administration to reunite families separated at the U. S.-Mexico border.
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3:20 p.m.
A central Iowa father says he was inspired to organize a rally in support of immigrant families after seeing news on Father’s Day of children separated from their parents who had recently crossed the U. S. border.
About 125 people turned out Saturday for the rally in Marshalltown organized by Steve Adelmund. Adelmund recalled being brought to tears when seeing the news on June 17 of immigrant children being separated from parents and held in cage-like structures at the border.
Adelmund, who says he identifies as a Democrat but sometimes votes Republican, said he believes the country is at a dangerous ideological turning point and that the time to speak out is now.
Adelmund said part of his motivation in organizing the rally was to show his 10-year-old daughter what democracy looks like and that one person can make a difference.
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2:45 p.m.
Neela Jayaraman was among thousands of people gathered for a second rally protesting family separation in Boston.
The 39-year-old says that as an Indian immigrant, and a social worker, President Donald Trump’s family separation and detention policies devastate her. She says as a mother, she can’t look at the cages, referring to where some children have been detained.
Cradling her 8-month-old baby Akira, Jayaraman says she has hope looking around the Boston Common. She says she hopes to keep public officials accountable.
Thousands of people marched from the Boston City Hall “Rally against Family Separation” where several elected officials, including Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, spoke out against Trump’s immigrant detention policies. Organizers are demanding local government agencies stop cooperating with federal immigration authorities.
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2:10 p.m.
A protest over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies has converged near the golf course where he is spending the weekend.
Demonstrators have gathered Saturday on a street corner near Trump’s golf resort at Bedminster, New Jersey.
They are waving signs with the messages, “Do you know where our children are?” and “Even the Trump family belongs together.”
It’s not known if Trump saw the protest. It was among hundreds of rallies around the country urging the Trump administration to reunite families separated at the U. S.-Mexico border.
In Washington, many thousand protesters have begun marching to the U. S. Department of Justice.
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2:10 p.m.
At least one person has been arrested when protesters blocked a downtown Columbus, Ohio, street after about 2,000 people attended a two-hour rally outside the Statehouse.
The Columbus Dispatcher reports that police initially tried to shepherd the protesters from the intersection Saturday. A woman was taken away by police after a scuffle.
Melissa Myers, a nurse, told those gathered for the rally, “You don’t have to be a parent to be outraged. You just have to be a decent human being.
