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Tens of thousands of people are expected to join nationwide protests across the US over the Trump administration’s strict migrant policy.
More than 630 events are planned calling for migrant families split up at the US border to be reunited.
Some 2,000 children remain separated from their parents, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the controversial policy.
He bowed to public pressure after weeks of domestic and international outrage.
The order stopped children being taken from parents who face criminal prosecution as part of the president’s policy of “zero tolerance” towards illegal crossings of the US border from Mexico.
Faced with a backlash, President Trump instead promised to “keep families together” in migrant detention centres.
However, critics say the order did not address the issue of families already separated, with 2,342 children taken away from their parents between 5 May and 9 June alone.
Earlier this week, a judge in California ordered the families to be reunited within 30 days.
It is likely to be one of the biggest protests over immigration, an issue that has proved deeply divisive under the presidency of Donald Trump, the BBC’s David Willis reports from Los Angeles.
People across many major towns and cities in the US have been urged to gather under the slogan #familiesbelongtogether. Organisers say they want to send a message to President Trump, who they fear will go back on his executive order.
“We cannot slow down now since the court ruling alone isn’t enough and could be overturned,” the movement’s website says.
As well as reuniting parents with their children, organisers are calling for an end to immigrant detention – even when families are kept together – and also plan to voice opposition to President Trump’s travel ban targeting five majority-Muslim nations, which was upheld by the US Supreme Court earlier this week.
Much of the uproar over the separation policy came after news organisations reported children being held in cells, converted warehouses and desert tents around the country.
Organisers say they expect tens of thousands of people to turn up – with instructions to dress in white, to represent peace and unity. The main march is in Washington DC, but one of the people behind the movement, Anna Galland, says there will be separate events in 50 states in total.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to join nationwide protests across the US over the Trump administration’s strict migrant policy.
More than 630 events are planned calling for migrant families split up at the US border to be reunited.
Some 2,000 children remain separated from their parents, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the controversial policy.
He bowed to public pressure after weeks of domestic and international outrage.
The order stopped children being taken from parents who face criminal prosecution as part of the president’s policy of “zero tolerance” towards illegal crossings of the US border from Mexico.
Faced with a backlash, President Trump instead promised to “keep families together” in migrant detention centres.
However, critics say the order did not address the issue of families already separated, with 2,342 children taken away from their parents between 5 May and 9 June alone.
Earlier this week, a judge in California ordered the families to be reunited within 30 days.
It is likely to be one of the biggest protests over immigration, an issue that has proved deeply divisive under the presidency of Donald Trump, the BBC’s David Willis reports from Los Angeles.
People across many major towns and cities in the US have been urged to gather under the slogan #familiesbelongtogether. Organisers say they want to send a message to President Trump, who they fear will go back on his executive order.
“We cannot slow down now since the court ruling alone isn’t enough and could be overturned,” the movement’s website says.
As well as reuniting parents with their children, organisers are calling for an end to immigrant detention – even when families are kept together – and also plan to voice opposition to President Trump’s travel ban targeting five majority-Muslim nations, which was upheld by the US Supreme Court earlier this week.
Much of the uproar over the separation policy came after news organisations reported children being held in cells, converted warehouses and desert tents around the country.
Organisers say they expect tens of thousands of people to turn up – with instructions to dress in white, to represent peace and unity. The main march is in Washington DC, but one of the people behind the movement, Anna Galland, says there will be separate events in 50 states in total.
