Protesters Flock to La Guardia to Support Immigrant Children

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

Immigration activists shuttled from terminal to terminal at La Guardia Airport in New York late Wednesday night, after news spread on social media that children who had been separated from their parents at the United States-Mexico border might be arriving on flights.

Hours earlier, President Trump had signed an executive order saying that the policy of separating immigrant children and parents would stop, but in New York hundreds of children had already arrived to be placed in shelters or foster care.

The protesters held signs at security gates that read “Bienvenidos a New York,” and “Te amamos.” And they sang protest songs like “We Shall Overcome,” in English and Spanish, that reverberated through the otherwise largely empty airport.



Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/nyregion/laguardia-immigration-protests.html

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[OhNo-Really]

1. Notice that they have been uniformly dressed

Im guessing big Walmart windfall

[Bayard]

3. And carrying their belongings in Walmart grocery bags

Or else their lunch.

[OhNo-Really]

2. were they told to hide their faces? Not helpful to parents searching for their kidnapped kids

[grantcart]

4. There are still thousands of unaccompanied minors who arrived

Without parents at the border, more than 60,000 over the past few years.

I wonder how Amy can determine if they arrived with their family or arrived unaccompnied?