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Immigrant Children: Immigrant Families and Trump Policy

immigrant children: The protests came as demonstrations occurred around the country over the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant families, according to CTV. They offered a glimpse of what might happen on Saturday when rallies are planned coast to coast. Among them were a Washington state congresswoman, the lawmaker said on Twitter. Amid unrelenting daily images of distraught immigrant children separated from parents and herded into fenced enclosures, women sat on the floor of the Senate Hart Office building's 90-foot-high atrium. What do we want Free families! and This is what democracy looks like were among their cries. Seated around Alexander Calder's black metallic Mountain and Clouds sculpture, they shouted slogans and cheered for a handful of fist-pumping lawmakers -- all Democrats -- who waded into the crowd. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.