Major Cities, Tiny Towns Host Immigration Policy Protests
Source: Associated Press
NEW YORK — Thousands of protesters across America, moved by accounts of children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, marched Saturday — in major cities and tiny towns — to demand President Donald Trump's administration reunite the divided families.
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More than 700 planned marches are expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people across the country, from immigrant-friendly cities like Los Angeles and New York to conservative Appalachia and Wyoming under the banner Families Belong Together. Thousands dressed in white and gathered early Saturday morning in sweltering 90-degree heat in Lafayette Park across from the White House in what was expected to be the largest of the day's protests.
"What's next? Concentration Camps?" one marcher's sign read. "I care, do you?" read another, referencing a jacket the first lady wore when visiting child migrants amid the global furor over the administration's zero-tolerance policy that forced the separation of more than 2,000 children from their parents. Her jacket had "I really don't care. Do you?" scrawled across the back, and that message has become a rallying cry for Saturday's protesters.
"We care!" marchers shouted outside city hall in Dallas. Organizer Michelle Wentz says opposition to the administration's "barbaric and inhumane" policy has seemed to cross political party lines. Marchers carried signs that read "Compassion not cruelty" and "November is coming."...
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Activists gather to protest the Trump administration’s approach to illegal border crossings and separation of children from immigrant parents in Lafayette Square across from the White House, Saturday, June 30, 2018, in Washington.
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The more than 600 Families Belong Together marches happening across the country Saturday are expected to attract thousands of people, including a number of prominent lawmakers and celebrities, who are protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
And as photos from the protests begin to accumulate, you may have noticed that many of these people are wearing white. Wondering why? According to the march’s organizers, white clothing is meant to symbolize peace and unity — and to make a strong statement...connect attendees in solidarity to each-other and channel historic social justice movements unified by one color of clothing,”.. “We believe if we can get a significant portion of the crowd to wear white, it will provide a compelling image for the media coverage and to capture the public’s imagination.”..
This isn’t the first time white clothing has been used as an instrument of social and political protest. Suffragettes, for example, wore white when they were campaigning for female voting rights — a statement that resurfaced during the 2016 presidential election. White bandanas also popped up at New York Fashion Week last year, as part of a Business of Fashion initiative meant to promote “human unity and inclusiveness amidst growing uncertainty and a dangerous narrative peddling division.”..
TIME, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-people-are-wearing-white-to-families-belong-together-marches/ar-AAzobZ1?li=BBnb7Kz
