New York also saw a major rally, as did Los Angeles, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Boston and other big cities. In Greenfield Ma., population 17,000, 500 people attended a rally on the Town Common. Over 700 rallies were listed nationally.
The calls to abolish ICE among Democrats picked up after the 28-year-old Ocasio-Cortez defeated Rep. Joseph Crowley (N.Y.) in an upset few saw coming.
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Sarah Stillman reports on people who fled their home countries fearing for their lives, and the tragic consequences when they were sent back.
Donald Trump and his administration are cruelly separating children from their families. But we won't allow it to continue. June 30 we're rallying in Washington DC and around the country to tell Donald Trump stop separating kids from their parents.
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Ice was created as part of the response to 9/11. There is no fix for an agency that was designed tear families and communities apart with little oversight.
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The First Lady went to the border, but she did not accomplish as much as that little girl standing up to Trump on the cover of Time Magazine or as much as Jenny Lisette Flores.
A Salvadoran woman becomes her family’s lifeline when her sister was taken to a detention facility in Texas and her niece to an Arizona shelter.
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