Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Immigration policy protestors turned out this weekend in Dallas, McKinney and Fort Worth.
An estimated three thousand demonstrators turned out in the summer heat for a rally at Dallas City Hall, protesting the separation of immigrant families along the border. Local demonstrators marched and rallied in solidarity with over 700 protests nationwide and in London.
From El Paso to Austin to Houston to Dallas, thousands across Texas protest at "Families Belong Together" rallies https://t.co/syPl8GmwSC
— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja) June 30, 2018
Leading chants of “Free the children, Let them go,” organizers insisted the protest was not partisan, but a reflection of the sympathies of 70 percent of all Americans.
In McKinney a few hundred people turned out at Mitchell Park, and hundreds of demonstrators rallied at the Tarrant County Court House in Fort Worth.
Fort Worth TX showed up for the Families Belong Together March!#FamiliesBelongTogetherMarch pic.twitter.com/7MlVEz45PZ
— Brett Is Exiting Stage Left (@BrettAlex) June 30, 2018
Families Belong Together March in Fort Worth pic.twitter.com/et3PScW1eC
— Julie Ford JulieIsFedUp and Staying to fight (@jkf3500) June 30, 2018
MCKINNEY, TX 🙌 #FamiliesBelongTogether pic.twitter.com/GdANXKIgrK
— Immigrant Justice NOW (@ImmJusticeNOW) July 1, 2018
Meantime, the Trump administration last week released a plan to be reunited separated families at the border — but said that the reunions won’t happen quickly.
The Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services said 2,053 children were still in the custody of HHS and awaiting being returned to their parents.
Since then, a federal judge ordered the federal government to reunite migrant parents with children taken from them under the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
On June 24, U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw, based in San Diego, ordered that nearly all children younger than 5 be returned to their parents within 14 days and that older children be returned within 30 days.
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